The other night our Christmas Eve "crowd" included a couple of families with little guys. In one family, Dad was holding Jackson (who's maybe about 3 years old) on one knee and a lit candle on the other while Jackson was sobbing because he wasn't being allowed to hold the candle - until he sobbed just hard enough to blow out the candle, which startled him into stunned silence! Mom and Dad relit the candle, and all was fine.
Then there was Everett, just a year old, who knows how to say "OH-oh!" and was saying it at the end of every hymn and carol. Well, he doesn't know "Amen" yet, but "out of the mouths of babes will come praise" and I think he just wanted us to know he didn't want us to stop! In the meantime, he was saying "Oh-oh" loud enough for everyone to hear, and everyone took it in stride with grins and chuckles all throughout.
I love it when even the littlest ones are paying attention in worship! That's life in the family of God at it's most fun.
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