Evie -- tonight my youngest son was reading from a wee prayer book he had gotten at his first communion. He is usually the one who gets to say prayer before meal -- it's always been his special task -- and he decided he would like to read one prayer from that book each evening.

Well, the one he got to was The Lord's Prayer, only he knows it as "The Our Father," so I don't think he immediately recognized it as the same prayer he's recited aloud with me at bedtime since he could first speak.

I honestly don't think he'd evers SEEN it in print before, and he tends to be a bit of a "careless" reader -- not one to take his time -- and so he began:

"Our Father, who art in Heaven, how loud be thy name!"

It was all I could do to keep from bursting out in laughter, but I didn't. However, what I did do was think about the meaning behind little words like that -- words that escape the lips of the innocent. Surely, there is often more truth behind the words of such as these than we may ever know. After all, one of God's pseudonyms -- if you will -- IS The Word, is it not?

So anyway, I think what Dotsie is trying to say to you, as is everyone else: the voice of love and support shouting in your ear is GOD. As you head off to see to your son's surgery, the voices may sound like ours