This morning I led a small group in children's ministry. These are 8 to 11-year-olds and we had about five or ten minutes to talk by the time I had handed out stickers and got the kids' attention. Well, I had been pretty excited when I found out what the topic for the day was: praying for God's will to be done. I was like, hmm, I've been thinking a lot about this lately so I'm excited about talking with the kids! So I started by asking them if they had any examples of things they had prayed for, God had told them to wait, and then they got their prayers answered. Nope. Okayyyy .... anything that you are currently praying for that you find it hard to wait for? I got a few answers about grandparents with cancer and such. Then I had a great topic: how it is much easier for Christians to really trust God and pray for his will to be done than it is for unbelievers. Because we know that God has our best in mind. After I was done talking about that, one of the boys said, "I don't understand." All the others were looking at me with confused expressions. I tried to clarify and they still didn't get it.

So I forgot that these are kids. They don't comprehend everything like my friends do .... oh well. I tried.

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