10 January 2012
Verily, verily
Babies are a syntactically backwards race. They remember the last word of a familiar phrase or sentence and that word comes to function as a sort of synecdoche for the whole meaning. A small child's Lord's Prayer sounds like: "Father. Heaven. Name. Come. Done. Heaven. Bread." Etc. But a very small child's prayer is always, actually and effectively, "Amen."
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Often times about halfway through the Lords prayer we would start hearing a quiet chant. "men, men, men, men, men ..." Then as we finished the prayer, the baby would let out a resounding MEN (not having mastered the first syllable yet). I think my children associate amen with "now I get to eat" at a very young age.
Ha! My boys love the Doxology's 'O's
(flow, below, Ghost).
Were you just in my house 20 minutes ago? I also love how more words work their way in as weeks and months pass.
@Jane: My mom tells a story about a night we sat down to a Summer supper of salads and cold sandwiches. My father began the meal, "Let us pray". To which my four year old brother interrupted, "Why? Our food is not hot".
Hey, I like the "What blog is this?" ripping off of the motto of my home state. Very nice.
I love your state. Not your weirdo peninsula, though. :D
Sounds exactly like my 3 year old's Lord's prayer complete with the AAAA-MEN!
my littlest sits and nods while he waits for his dinner- nods us into praying.. and nodding is his prayer. I love it!
I love hearing my little ones pray like this. I think their prayers are much more earnest even lacking words than my rattling off to get them into bed.
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