Hearing God

Conversation in our car the other day:

Ally (5): I pray and talk to God, but I don’t hear him talking to me.

Me: (Thinking to myself, how am I going to get this across to a 5-year old). Well, God hears you and He talks to you, but not with a voice like I am using now to talk to you. It’s different.

Tori (8) pipes up: Yeah, it’s like when you are at school and you see someone playing alone and you hear God saying to you, “Go and ask that person if they want to play” that’s God talking to you.

Ally: Oh, now I get it.

Well done, Tori. Leave it to the children to know exactly what to say. When we adults try to overcomplicate and over analyze, children remember that to say it simply is to say it best.