We sit at the table with our family and talk about praying before dinner. I tell how it used to be at my house: “Lord bless this food, Amen.”
8-year-old daughter listens and asks: “Why do you say ‘amen’ at the end of a prayer?” Before I have a chance to respond, my 12-year-old son answers: “That’s the send button to God.” I have nothing to add to that.
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