Monday, January 18, 2010

Children's Perfect Faith!

Last night at dinner, my brother-in-law, Joe related this story. I thought it was too perfect not to share.
So yesterday, during lunch, it was raining really hard. All of a sudden, it stopped, and the Morrell boys were not happy about it. So Jaxon and Zachary folded their arms and said a little prayer that went something like this; "Heavenly Father, please bless it to start raining again. Name of Jesus Christ, Amen." With their heads immediately turning to look out the sliding glass door to see if the rain had started again.
To their disappointment, it had not. So one of them said with sadness, "Our prayer didn't work".
Joe took this opportunity to teach a little lesson, and told the boys that "sometimes it takes Heavenly Father a little while to answer our prayers, it doesn't always happen right away".
Jaxon then explained to Zachary," Yeah, it takes a long time for our prayers to travel all the way up to heaven, and then Heavenly Father has to send it all the way back down again...plus its foggy today, so it probably will take longer than normal."

I just love how simple our children's faith can be. I only wish that we as adults could be that way more often. May we try harder to "Become as little children".