CHILDREN, TEACH US TO PRAY
I was sitting in with my wife one Wednesday evening as she was teaching a five-year-old’s Bible class. It came time to have some animal crackers and she asked one of the little boys, Joey, to lead the prayer for the crackers. Of course it is always so precious to see children pray, and as Joey bowed his head along with the other children he began a most thorough sweet prayer: “Dear God, thank you for my mommy, my daddy, my brother, my sister . . . great-grandfather, etc . . . and thank you for my teacher. And God, thank you for the animal crackers (pause)” . . . Joey stopped right there in the middle of the prayer. Of course everyone began to squirm and get restless. We waited and waited and finally my wife quietly asked Joey if there was anything wrong. Joey slowly raised his head and in a very low whisper asked, “Are we…
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