Vander Linden Musings

So Utah Jazz are up in their series 2-0.  AWESOME stuff!  Here is a picture of two of my boys during the game…

I thought they looked cute sitting there watching the game while playing on the computers.

So this past Sunday in church, all of my boys (including my husband)sang “A Child’s Prayer” (written by Janice Kapp Perry)in sacrament meeting.  They did so well.  The boys looked so cute.  BJ’s mom came to play the piano while they sang- and thank goodness.  She was able to slow down and pound out the melody for the boys since it’s a song that has seperate parts- BJ sang a different part than the boys.  Here are the words to that beautiful song:

(Boys part) Heavenly Father, Are you really there?  And do you hear and answer every child’s prayer?  Some say that Heaven is far away, but I feel it close around me as I pray!  Heavenly Father, I remember now, Something that Jesus told disciples long ago, “Suffer the children to come to me.”  Father in prayer I’m coming now to thee.

(BJ’s part) Pray, he is there.  Speak, he is listening.  You are his child.  His love now surrounds you.  He hears your prayers.  He loves the children.  Of such is the kingdom, the kingdom of Heav’n.

Then they sing those two parts together.

Seriously- I wish I had a video- I had to fight back tears.  I guess what kept them at bay was also trying to not laugh that my mother-in-law was having to pound out the melody to keep them going.