The Power of Prayer

I am so grateful for Prayer and for the opportunity I had to teach Ben about it.  Ben asked if I would lay down with him in bed tonight.  I told him I would after I got Angela to bed.  Well at 10 o'clock he was still awake and sitting in my bed.  I told him he needed to go lay back in his bed.  He started getting fussy.  I told him that because he had not waited, he was going to have to wait till I was done with dishes.  I finally got done with dishes and went to go lay with him.  He was in talking to Mike.  I asked why he was out of bed.  And then told him to go lay in back in bed.  That I would come back after brushing teeth because he had not listened again.  So after brushing teeth, I go in and lay down with Ben.  Frustrated, I asked again why he was doing this and why he was having a hard time getting to sleep. It finally came out that he was scard of having a bad dream.  I told him that he can always pray.  He asked me to say a prayer. So I said a prayer.  Afterwards I told him that he could pray to Heavenly Father any time anywhere for what ever reason that he would listen and that he wants us to pray to him.  I also was able to tell him that he can tell his brain to 'Stop it' with telling him that he'll have bad dreams.  (or Stop it.  I don't want bad dreams).  Told him in addition to the prayers he can tell himself to stop it.  This all took place within about 5 min and he was asleep.  What a great reminder that through prayer and telling yourself(or Satan) to "Stop it" it sure helps to calm things down.