Many children have amazing faith in the power of prayer to answer their immediate needs. One twelve-year-old girl went a bit too far with that attitude. Sitting at the kitchen table, the girl’s mother overheard her daughter praying “Dear, God, please make the average monthly rainfall in Louisiana 4.5 inches.”
The girl’s mother was puzzled by the strange request and asked her daughter why she would pray to God for rain in a state 1,500 miles from where she lived.
”Mom,” said the girl, “I wrote that on my geography test today, and I’m counting on getting an ‘A’!”
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