Recognizing (9/6/16)

Porter and I had a sweet talk tonight at bedtime about recognizing the spirit and how it feels and speaks to us.  We were listening to a new song, "If I Listen With My Heart".  After hearing the chorus, "If I listen with my heart, I hear the Savior's voice."  He then told me he'd never heard Heavenly Father's voice.  So we talked about what the song was saying and how we don't hear His voice with our hears, but the Spirit talks to us and we feel things.  Then we talked about how he has felt when singing certain songs like his example was when he sings, "I Stand All Amazed".  And then we talked about when he prays because he feels scared, but then he feels comforted afterwards.  We also talked about feeling prompted to help someone or prompted to stop or not do something.  I told him we'd take opportunities to stop and recognize the spirit more so that he would know how it feels.  Then we talked about the role of the spirit to teach and testify.  I love these moments with Porter. I know he really listens and earnestly wants to learn.  He wants to hear Heavenly Father and Jesus. The other day we'd talked about the President of the church and how they are called.  He asked why he hadn't seen Jesus.  I love Porter.  I am grateful for the chance to be his mom.