Blessed is the spot ... and the sea and the fish!!!

Tonight, Mona made me laugh and really surprised me too!!

It was bedtime and we were reading her 3 Baha'i prayer books for children before going to bed. After reading "O God, guide me", we started to read "Blessed is the spot". I mentioned before that Mona usually repeats each little sentence after me...

So in the middle of the prayer, where it reads "and the sea", instead of repeating the same words, Mona said: "and the fish"!!!
I just couldn't stop laughing and giggling, untill the end of the prayer. It was so funny, because she said it so naturally as if it was part of the prayer!! lol

Then we said the last prayer (and her favourite one) "O God, Educate these children."
We then kissed each other goodnight and said goodnight to 'Abdu'l-Bahá and Baha'u'lláh, and told them we loved them, and then I turned off the lights and sat next to Mona's bed until she falls asleep. Usually we sing in the dark together, little lullabies or prayers until she falls asleep, but this time, Mona started saying the Baha'i prayer "Blessed is the spot" all by herself...

Here is what little Mona was saying:

"Bessed spot, and house, and pace, and city, and heart, and mountain, and zefuge, and cave, and valleeeeeee, and sea, and eeeland and meedow"!!


She stopped there and repeated the whole prayer again and again and until i told her that it was time to sleep now...
I was so suprised!! I didnt say anything while she was saying the prayer in the dark, so that i could listen carefully to her and see if she could really say the prayer by heart. And she did!!
From the top of her little 23 months old brain, she did got most of it right!! And I was pretty impressed.
She did forget the part where it says "and the land" and I think she is a bit too young to remember the last sentence in its full lenght "where mention of God hath been made and His praise glorified". But it's pretty good for an almost two year old girl !!


Here is the Baha'i Prayer by Bahá'u'lláh, in its entirety:

"Blessed is the spot, and the house, and the place,

and the city, and the heart, and the mountain,

and the refuge, and the cave, and the valley,

and the land, and the sea, and the island,

and the meadow where mention of God

hath been made and His praise glorified."