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Since the day my daughter was born, I've urgently wanted to keep her safe from the world. Long before she could even walk, I would randomly burst into tears thinking or so how one day, some jerk would break her heart and I would be tragical to see her sad. Curtly after my son was born, I vowed to my husband that I would "gravely harm" any girl who hurt him. (Pray for my economise, y'all.) God entrusted these bantam, precious people into my care and it hurt me to know one day the worldwide wouldn't be benign to them – and there wasn't much I could do near it. The world would Doctor of Osteopathy what she does and I would implore them through and through the good, the bad and the ugly.

Past 2022 happened and everything felt alarming. No more playschool for Annie, zero play dates or Chick-Yay lunches with friends. No church and definitely no Bible class. Masks were required everywhere. No hugs. No kisses. My service line mom worries took a dramatic turn to follow with the new ponderousness of the worldwide, with all the changes and cancelled plans. Some days we pretended same everything was fine! What computer virus? I thanked God that our kids were ages 3 and 1 (now 4 and 2), consequently blissfully unaware, mostly, that there was anything to fear. We spent lots of clock time together as a family, we cooked, we gardened (aka Ollie ate very much of dirt), and we tried to help our friends and neighbors feel a little to a lesser extent lonely when everything was exclude down.

Then there were other days.

The days when indefinite, or all of us, would begin because we missed our friends. We missed a routine. We incomprehensible organism able to see our people without a mask and a heavy drug of anxiousness. I was ended cooking, missed traveling and refused to turn on the news because everything looked so bleak.

On indefinite of those "off" years when we were counting down to bedtime, I laid Annie in eff and asked her to say her petition. I was mentally and physically exhausted from attempting to explicate to her several times that day that we had been unclothed to "the virus," therefore we had to keep one's distance from everyone for a while. She had cried and thus had I. None of it felt sensible. Thusly imagine my surprisal when I heard her petition.

"Dear God, thank you for this day and the beautiful sunlight. Thank you for this terrific world you've given us and thank you for my family. I love them so selfsame untold. Amen."

Outer of the mouth of babes.

American Samoa I kissed her good nighttime I had a crazy thought: What if our kids are going to be exactly fine?

What if rather of this general making them feel isolated and anxious they learn the smasher of community and relationships?

What if instead of tone stuck they flavor seen and loved afterwards all the uninterrupted family time?

What if they learn Old on the value of good wellness and always take steps to arrest healthy?

What if they grow to love worshipping with their church family?

What if they learn to see God in nature and grow over up knowing, without a doubt, God cares for them and e'er provides?

What if they project how God's family takes care of each other, in the forms of a casserole nigh at the door or an reassuring card or name, and grow up knowing they are always at home with God's fellowship?

What if our kids ascertain how to have grace, for themselves and for others, in a challenging time of year?

What if our kids learn from the world approximately them and use that knowledge to throw a better world in the next?

What if, instead of our kids hearing the fear and anxiety in our mature-up prayers, our kids learn to beg off about whatever is on their heart because they know God is listening?

What if God is equipping them, through these unique challenges and experiences, to change this world in a major way?

What if our kids grow upwardly knowing home is wherever their fellowship is, and where at that place is family there is plenty of love to spread?

What if – after all is said and done - our kids will be scarcely fine?

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