Another one for Jesus

Alexis had the privilege of helping Preston pray to have Jesus come into his heart. I'm so sad to have missed it, although I did hear them praying but was so into whatever I was doing to actually listen to what they were saying.

Alexis came in very excited and said Preston just asked Jesus into his heart. So I asked Preston about it, of course Alexis kept inserting her comments & had to be reminded that it's Preston's news.
Preston said he just asked Jesus into his heart. I asked him why we do that, he said "I don't know". I asked him what he prayed, he said "I don't know". But he knew that Jesus was in there now.

Alexis asked Preston if he'd like to pray & ask Jesus into his heart & he said, "Okay". So she told me the part of the prayer she remembered, "Come into my heart as holy & forgive me of my sins". Amen!!

We called the grandparents to share the news & he told his Papa "You ask Jesus in your heart when you go to Heaven". Now that he did, he wants to make sure his Papa is going there too.

I was a little skeptical about him understanding this at 3 1/2, but Mom just told me that my brother was 3 when he prayed by himself & just informed her that he did it. He probably gets it & we'll just keep reminding him what he did. I'm sure Alexis will do that for us anyway.

Wisdom from a 5 year-old

Preston was upset that the battery in his toy bus was dead. I explained to him that you have to turn it off when you're not using it or that will happen.
In all her wisdom Alexis saw an opportunity to give us a life lesson. She said, "that battery dies when you aren't using your bus just like when we don't use Jesus we die". Well it may not be exactly how Mother Teresa would've said it, but I think you get the gist of what she said.
Our lives will definitely suffer when we don't use Jesus. That's it ...plain and simple.