Malachi's powers

okay so a few nights ago- well actually in the early morning hours of 5-13-09 {I'm saving the date so that I can remember later} I woke up in the middle of the night not to the sound of Ethan crying, but to the sound of little feet running around... and thought "hmmm... what in the world is going on?" so I got up, and Malachi was standing in the bathroom- he had to go potty. So of course now Ethan was up too- so I went into the living room switched on the TV and sat down to feed him, Malachi would NOT go back to bed, he just came and sat next to me and was watching me. All of a sudden he said to me, all sad and downcast "mommy, I don't have any powers" Okay I can only assume that he picked up this idea from watching The Incredibles the week before. I said to him, just to make sure I heard him right, "You don't have any powers?" Malachi looked down so sad and shaking his head said "no, I don't" he said it so sad that I just wanted to cry. And I said "Well honey, Daddy doesn't have any powers, does he? and we still love him, I don't have any powers and you still love me.." But he was still just fixated on this thought that he had no powers... He looked out side and he could see a light from the house across the street, but it was coming through a bunch of bushes that we have in our front yard; and he pointed outside and said "there are powers!" and I said "what we need to run outside and get them?" {which of course I couldn't do- I was sitting there feeding the baby} and he said "yes- CATCH them!" and I said "Buddy, we all have powers and they come out when we try to be good" he was not impressed by my words- so I tried another angle I said "Your powers are in your heart, and they come out when you try to be like Jesus, and try really hard to be good." he liked that better, he lifted up his shirt and put his hand on where he thought his heart was {his stomach} and said "My powers in my Heart?" and I said "yes, and they come out when we try really hard to be good and to be like Jesus." He really liked that. Every time I told the story he would interrupt me to remind me, while he pulled up his shirt for emphasis, "MY POWERS IN MY HEART!" indeed his powers are in his heart!! How sweet!