This past year Liam and I have been spending the first part of Libby's nap working on something called Kids Of Integrity. It's something we found online from Focus on the Family that provides lesson plans complete with objection lessons, Bible stories and practical ways to apply the truths in everyday life here at home. We started doing it because we could have sent Liam to school this last fall but decided to hold him back. Part of the reason was so that he could be emotionally more mature and we thought learning about Kindness, Patience, Respect (to name a few of the 18 subjects they offer), would help him and us.
Our first one was about Kindness and we spent a couple weeks working through it. Halfway through there was a object lesson about God being able to make our hearts clean. Liam really connected with the lesson and had lots of questions for the next couple days. During that time he told us that he would like to ask God to make his heart clean but wanted to wait a bit. We didn't want to push him so we just kept praying. A few weeks later we were visiting our dear friends (Craig & Jen) in Regina and on the Sunday morning I happened to think of it and asked him if he had thought any more about asking God to make his heart clean. He looked at me and said, "yeah, mom, I did it last night in my sleeping bag!" We were so thrilled and later shared the story with our church family here in Nipawin. Our Pastor asked if Liam would mind coming up to the front some Sunday and so back in March Pastor Bill presented Liam with a special book and prayed for him and us. God is good!
