So Sunday in sharing time* they were doing some sort of game and they were presenting scenarios and the kids had to choose the right. They were things like “You are invited on a cruise that goes over Sunday, what should you do?” (Of course, the “correct” answer was don’t go; [my daughter] said that would be stupid, of course she’d go.)** One of the scenarios was that you are in bed trying to go to sleep and your parents call you down for family prayer. [My daughter] was utterly confused. She said she sat there with a strange look on her face trying to figure out what in the world “family prayer” is. She’d never heard of it. She was sure our family had never done it. She couldn’t figure it out. She laughed and laughed when I told her that family prayer is simply a prayer you do with your family. She was like “Then why didn’t they just say that?”
It reminds me a bit of my own experience with the term “family home evening”.
* For those who don’t know, this is a part of primary, the church’s organization for three- to eleven-year olds.
** My thought on this: Who’s inviting our kids on cruises, anyway?
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I get visions of the family standing in a circle holding hands, possibly swaying, doing a round robin sort of prayer.
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