5/11/2023 0 Comments Duly noted slang![]() In day-to-day living –– at home, in places of work, walking through the grocery store, pulling in and out of a parking lot –– what are we accidentally yet somehow very purposefully showing (and teaching) one another? ![]() It should be duly noted that when I asked her if she would like to pray the next morning, she quickly told me that “prayer is just for bedtime.” Clearly, we still have a lot of work to do.īut this idea of picking up on things is far from limited to our homes with our children as they learn their prayers. I went to bed that night proud –– of my child for learning a prayer but weirdly also of my husband and myself for being the kind of people who have said the Hail Mary around our child enough times that she has slowly picked up the words and committed it to memory. How much do our kids pick up on? How much do we all pick up on from each other? Walking back into the living room, I told my husband, “So, our kid knows the Hail Mary now.” He laughed and said, “Figured she’d pick up on it eventually.” I stood there in stunned silence, and as I pulled the sheets up around her and gave her a kiss goodnight, I resisted the urge to say, “Where did you learn that?” ![]() The almost 3-year-old began to say the Hail Mary, complete with a little head bow at the name Jesus and a profoundly loud “Amen!” at the end. Youth, Young Adults and Campus Ministry.
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