Sometimes the prayers of our children just make a smile.

My seven-year-old, when he was like four, he's so funny.

He prayed, Lord, can you make me as brown and cute as my daddy?

One of the younger boys had carved a pumpkin, and the pumpkin, like, the part that he had carved

to kind of like caved him.

So at night he's like,

well, doesn't Jesus answer our prayers? Can't God do anything? Why can't we pray that he'll heal

the pumpkin? It was one of those things like, I don't know what to do with this. Dear Jesus,

thank you so much for how hard daddy works. And thank you for how mom, how mom does her thing. And I think

everybody at the table was like, well, is mom going to react to that? Then recently, a mom

named Susanna shared a way she's working to instill another level of gratitude into her family.

We're reading the Psalms and we're digging deeper in who God is and what has God done for us.

She says that the daily habit of reading God's word together is helping the whole family get

ready for Thanksgiving in a more meaningful way.

It's growing their vision of their understanding of God and growing their prayers and just seeing

who, what God does for us and who he is and his character.

And so that's been good for our family to kind of grow our hearts and our understanding of

God.

Today we'll hear from more listeners like Susanna.

They're sharing creative ideas with us.

Ways to help make Thanksgiving go beyond just a big meal and a football game.

This is November 22nd, 2019, and you're listening to the Revive Our Hearts podcast with

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