Gregory's spiritual softness

We have to praise the Lord when we see our children softening to the conviction of the Holy Spirit. A while back Gregory was asking how you get to heaven. So I started to explain the plan of salvation. Our oldest child, Eric, piped in and was explaining it all very accurately.(He had already excepted the Lord as his personal Savior last spring) After taking it all in Gregory replied, "I don't want to go to Heaven." Eric seemed concerned and told him, "Fine you will have to go to Hell then". Gregory gasped at his response and said, "Mommy did you hear Eric?" I let him know that I had heard but also told him it was true, if he did not ask Jesus into his heart. He let me know he did not want to go to hell. Every night each child picks a prayer request (sometimes with daddy and mommy's help) and prays for it before going to bed. A few nights ago we started our bedtime routine for prayer. Gregory had picked a prayer request which I can't remember. All I know is he didn't pray for his request. Instead his prayer went like this, "Dear Jesus, Help me to ask you my Savior so I go to heaven and not go down where the fire is and help me understand." He is getting really close to understanding it all and seems to have a desire to understand. We rejoice at the small steps toward his salvation. We pray that each of our children will come to know the Lord as their personal Savior at an early age. We also want it to be something that they want not what daddy and mommy push them into. We let them ask the questions. We do bring it up when opportunity arises as well. The neat thing with Gregory is that he has been very inquisitive on his own and quite frequently at that. We continue to pray for his Salvation, as well as our daughter, Audrey. We hope and pray that each of you reading this have done the same and have accepted Jesus Christ as your personal Savior.