“Daddy, Are you trying to be more like Jesus?”

Our second daughter, Karis, has a wonderful heart. She is acting out a little these days but still has these moments of incredible insight, warmth, and care. I was having a time the Lord at the dinner table (not as we were eating- that would be odd, but just at the actual table) when she came up to me asking me what I was doing. She has seen me read, pray, etc., etc., but this time I had a workbook out and it just looked different to her. I told Karis that daddy was trying to be more like Jesus. She looked at me and walked off kind-of talking under her breath and skipping to her own beat. This morning when she saw me in the same posture, she said, “Daddy, you trying to be more like Jesus?” I responded, “Yes Karis….trying…but I am not doing that great of a job.” She said “Oh,” and walked off. 

I few minutes later I passed by her room and there she was, in a similar posture, “reading” a little book (she can’t read yet) and saying “Jesus…I love you…you love me…thank you….help me be like you” I walked in and sat down and asked her about Jesus and what He was like. We talked about His love for us and our love for Him. I walked away with a greater understanding of just how much I model for my children. You have heard that things are more easily “caught” than “taught” and boy….that is the truth.