"What is prayer?" I asked our kindergarten enrichment students.
"Talking to God and Jesus," they all affirmed.
"But what about listening? Do you think God wants you to listen to God?"
Hmm... they needed to ponder that one.
So after a long discussion with many props and pictures to add our conversation, I challenged the wiggly group of students to practice listening to God.
They all got in their favorite prayer posture (which was laying down on the rug in their classroom). And we had silence.
Who says children cannot create and hold silence? Who says that children do not crave or need silence? Who says that children are unable or unwilling to ponder the mysteries of quiet?
Not these nine students. They were quiet without giggles, without touching for some l-o-n-g moments.
What they reported afterwards was amazing- they heard God.
Now, I wish for all their parents, grandparents, siblings and all the people of the world to do the same...to stop the rush-rush, hush themselves, be quiet and listen.
My hunch is if we all did that- we would be different and so would our world.
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