like a fire

I don’t talk a lot about Jane on here, and I realized that I really should. She is just this really sweet girl with a big heart. She loves her family, as evidenced by the picture, and she is generally just lots of fun.

Jane is also very spiritually tuned. She often says things that make Cathy and I think. She’s the first to say, “This song is about Jesus.” So we are fairly used to her spiritual side.

Lately she has been praying prayers that are a bit mature for her age. She prayed for Cathy to get better the other night and for her sister, who hasn’t had a BM in about a week, to be able to go. She also prayed that God would take all the monsters from her room.

So it was a bit strange yesterday when she wrote “No” on her hands and arm. She has been a little irritable after being sick and that is probably contributing to her mood, but that was just a little scary. As her father, I feel so bad for her. I can’t imagine what possessed her to do that, and the symbolism of it really hurt us to think about what she might have been thinking when she did it. If you get a moment this week, pray for Jane.