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Cayden, precious Cayden.

As the youngest child of three, she has her moments of complete drama and babyness.  But yesterday, she had the whole family in stitches.

Cayden on Music:

“He’s a Juice Box Hero…with stars in his eyes.” These are the words Cayden puts to Juke Box Hero by Foreigner. She sings it as loud as she can, with her eyes closed and head rocked back.

She also sings “Dead or Alive” by Bon Jovi this way with the added feature of using a hairbrush or lipgloss as a microphone. The best thing to do is this - as the song is going to it’s loudest part, shut off the music. She will keep singing. She just doesn’t care.

Cayden on spelling:

“Dad…Dad…Dad!!! I can spell MOM with my eyes closed!!!! M….O …. M.”

What about CAT? C….A…T.

Is it harder to spell with your eyes closed?

Hands on hips…”YES!!!!!”

We spend the next few minutes throwing words at her seeing if she can spell them with her eyes closed.

Cayden on how AWESOME God is:

Cayden loves God, loves Jesus. She makes up songs to, about, and for Him. Below are some of my favorite lines she has composed.

“If it wasn’t for God….we wouldn’t have computerrrrrrrrrrrssss. And we wouldn’t be able to play Webkinzzzzzzzzzz.”

“I love Jesus and He want’s us all to be His children but not all people want to be His children but that’s okay because Jesus loves them anyway even though they aren’t going to Heaven.”

Cayden on Prayer:
I pray over the kids almost every night. 5 nights out of 7, I remember and do it. The other 2 nights, Cayden reminds me - “Would you please pray over me. I like it when you do that.”

When I get done praying - every single night of the past two weeks - Cayden has said when I finished - “Pray for China. You keep forgetting to pray for China.”

So I pray for China. The first night I did this, I used the term “Underground Church.” Praying for her leaders and participants, for safety, leadership, favor with the government.

Cayden: Underground Church?? They go to church under the ground?

G: No, it’s a term they use to describe their church. They meet in homes, businesses, secret places because the government of China doesn’t like them.

Cayden: How do they get underground?

G: They don’t meet underground….well, some of them might meet in caves but…that’s not important right now. It’s not legal for them to go to church so they have to hide it or they get arrested, beaten, sometimes even killed.

So now when we finish praying…I purposely don’t mention China because this is what I get to hear…

C: “And God, we pray for China and the Underground Church even though they don’t really go to church under the ground.”

Good times….