A bedtime story

    When my children were little, I used to make up bedtime stories. I always knew when they were good ones because they'd be satisfied enough to want to go to sleep. There were Princes and Princesses, forests and castles, fairies and really anything my imagination could come up with. The sweet look in their eyes and quietness of self drove me on and on to make it my quest to make it the best bedtime story ever! Oh! What treasured memories of mine and hopefully of theirs also. I must remember to ask them if "they" remember those special moments! 

     Bedtime Stories, to me, can be compared to our nightly prayers. We pray before bed and tell God the story of our lives. There may be princesses and princes, forests and castles, monsters and winding roads in the words we say to God. Asking and telling Him the story of our day, of our lives. Telling Him that we need help going down a certain path. Asking him to fight off the trials that have inched their ways into our lives. Praying to Him with comfort in the knowledge of the Great Palace that awaits us. Placing "ourselves" as princess and princesses in His sight. 

     Telling your sweet children bedtime stories, can incorporate the lives of many Saints. The stories are endless. Your words are meaningful to their innocent minds and can comfort them and make them feel secure. As they grow older, they can have cemented in their Souls a true meaning of Adventure and Love and Hope, just like God offers us. His bedtime stories are of Truth and Wisdom. Of Hope and Success. He has told us the story of His life and they become prayers in our hearts. 

     Tonight, tell your little ones a Bedtime story. It will be a treasured memory for them in their older age. As our Great Storyteller of Heaven, our God, has instilled into our own hearts,  always with the ending line, "and they lived happily ever after."