“Aladdin,” she said to him, “was a young boy who was sent to search for a magic lamp in a dark and eerie cave. Once he found the lamp he realized that the man who had taken him to the cave was going to take the lovely jeweled lamp away from him. Aladdin knew that this special lamp maybe magic and he wanted the magic for himself so, he found a way to keep the lamp for himself.”
“Was it magic?” asked his mom.
“It was magic. Aladdin discovered that it contained a genie while trying to clean the lamp. In a puff of smoke the genie was released from the lamp,” his mother replied.
“What did the genie want?” the boy wanted to know.
“The genie was grateful to be free from the lamp and gave the boy three wishes. He could ask for anything and it would be his,” his mother told him.
“What did he wish for?” the boy asked.
“First he wished for food to eat. He and his mother didn’t have a lot of food. Next he wished gold plates and they were sold by his mom to get money for their family. Finally he wished to be with the one he would love and he married a wonderful princess,” his mom answered.
“I’m not tired. Can I have one more story?” the boy asked looking up at his mother with hopeful eyes.
“Yes, I have an even better story about someone who gave people more than three wishes that would be gone in a short time,” the mother said wrapping her arms around her son to cuddle him close.
“What was his name?” the boy wanted to know.
“We call him God. Remember how we pray to him at meal times and in the morning to start the day?” the mother asked him.
“Yes, we have to thank him for the things he is doing in our day and we can ask him for things too,” the boy responded.
“Well, God has told us in the Bible that we can ask him for things whenever we need them. He didn’t say that we could only ask for three wishes like Aladdin did,” the mother explained.
“He doesn’t answer every prayer the way we want him to the way the genie did,” the boy said adamantly.
“No, he doesn’t answer every prayer the way we want him to, but he does hear our prayers,” he mother answered slowing leaning her son back until his head hit the pillow.
“Thank goodness! If God were like the genie in Aladdin, we might end up with things that we wouldn’t want in a short time or things that we would want to change later. God seems to know what we need and when we need it,” the mother stated pulling the blue blanket her son favored up to his slowing dropping chin.
“Right now I think God thinks it would be best if I got a puppy,” the boy announced.
“Let’s pray about it,” his mother said slowing standing up and walking to the door of her son’s room silently praising God that a puppy hadn’t just appeared at the foot of her son’s bed.
that The Activity Mom and I was hosting this week. Here is the box JDaniel and I put together for an activity we are doing for this Friday’s 
I discovered Jumpin-Bean’s blog while visiting blogs that had Aloha Friday questions. I loved her layout and her question. I went back week after week not just to answer the questions, but to read about her cute little boy and her husband faraway serving our country. 
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