When my daughter was four she came to me with a broken toy and asked me to mend it. 

Often when she would ‘break’ her toys I would be able to snap or glue a piece back on. However, this time she had snapped a piece in half. ‘I’m sorry, sweetheart, I can’t mend this,’ I told her. 

She responded, ‘Mummy, let’s pray to Jesus to mend it.’ How do you explain that the toy will still be broken to a child who believes that Jesus can do anything? Yet, when I told her that we could pray but that Jesus probably was not going to mend her toy, she simply responded, ‘Let’s pray anyway.’

At that moment I understood why Jesus told his disciples that to enter the kingdom of heaven you must become like a little child (Mark 10:15; Matthew 18:3). 

At the age of four, my daughter understood that God loves us and wants us to pray even if we do not think we are going to get the answer we want.

I often think I need to handle my problems on my own, that they are too small for God. However, my daughter reminded me that nothing is too small for him. He wants us to lay all our burdens down and trust in his love for us.

Prayer: Dear loving God, help us remember that nothing is too small to bring to you in prayer. Help us bring all of our burdens to you with the faith of a child. Amen