"Jesus is Alive!"

So, I am driving home from CBS (my Bible study) yesterday and I ask Alek what he learned today. He said, "Jesus is alive." Wow. I know other mothers who have talked about what a blessing it is to have their children begin to quote scripture or sing Bible songs, but I just didn't know how it would feel -- now I do. I was reduced to tears of joy. My son who has been home 3 months last week and who didn't know one word of English before we came home, knows that Jesus rode into Jerusalem on a donkey, that he hung on a cross, and is alive. What more does one need to know? I am truly amazed and humbled by the pace at which he is learning. Although, I am not sure that I am the one who has taught him about Jesus. I'll explain.

About one week after we were home, I was rocking Alek in his room and as he often did when we first came home, he was checking out everything in his room. As his eyes fell upon a figurine of a mother in a white dress and a little boy (picture at right), he pointed to it and said, "Jesus!" I was about to correct him, when I stopped myself. How did he know about Jesus, I wondered. We had, of course, prayed over him and sung to him "Jesus loves me," but we had not yet shown him a book with a depiction of Jesus or told him any Bible stories. As I sat there in awe holding my new son in my arms, memories of our waiting time came flooding back to me. I remembered that each night before bed, Scott and I would pray for Alek, and many times we prayed that Jesus would visit Alek in his dreams and whisper in his ear that He loves him. In faith I believe our prayers were answered, Jesus did in fact visit him and that is how Alek knows Jesus already. Some day soon I need to go back to my journal during the waiting period and write down all the answered prayer that we are seeing answers to with our very own eyes. Amazing. Have a wonderful week. Here is a picture of our family on Easter Sunday.