Lead Me, Guide Me

Yesterday was quite the day... I'm still trying to adjust to Wyatt not taking naps and I can't lie, it's still killing me. I didn't realize how much I utilized that hour or two. Anyway, it was just a day as usual except Dax was up earlier because of that wonderful woodpecker I'd love to pull a Betty Draper on, (You'd have to know Mad Men to get that one) and because Dax was up, so was Wyatt. Lucky me had a full day of reffing the fighting, trying to get Dax to settle down about Back to School night http://butterfliesandbullfrogspreschool.blogspot.com/ and getting all caught up with my photography editing. I've been so tired that I don't really know how to push through half the time, but we did... my point is that it was a rough night and because we got home a little later than usual, the boys got to bed a lot later... I was getting ready for bed as if it was a race to see how fast I could get there when I heard Dax singing in his sweet, high pitched singing voice the following... "Row, Row, Row, Row your boat gently down the stream...merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily life look at the sky..." I let him sing it over and over till I decided I should probably teach him the real words... so I went in and we sang that and "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star"and many, many others. If I were in a race to get to bed, I had lost by a landslide...there was a little bit of a silence when I recognized that there was one song I wanted to teach him. One that I know he's heard because I sang it to him all the time when he was still a baby. It almost always calmed him down when I whispered it right in his ear. I told him we were going to learn a new song and I began to sing "I am a child of God..." we went through the song line by line till he could sing along with me.... I started to cry and told him that I wanted him to know that Heavenly Father loves him and that whenever he needs him he's just a prayer away... he said "I want to sing Child of God again" so we did... and I can tell you there would be no way to number the times I've sang that song in my 27 years of life, but I do know that there has never been a time I've felt the love of our Savior stronger, while singing that song, than when my little Daxer was singing it.
It was a long day but it ended in the sweetest way possible. I got to hear the sweetest words sung by one of my sweetest boys and I got to feel the love of my Father in Heaven in a way I never had. It was a great and memorable experience for me.

I am a child of God,

And he has sent me here,
Has given me an earthly home
With parents kind and dear.
Lead me, guide me, walk beside me,
Help me find the way.
Teach me all that I must do
To live with him someday.

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