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The God Squad: More questions from kids about God

Rabbi Marc Gellman, Tribune Content Agency on

The best quote about these times came from another time. These words were spoken by the son of Nancy Hanks and Thomas Lincoln, who were pioneer farmers from Hodgenville, Kentucky. Their son, who spoke these words and who preserved our union, was born on February 12, 1809. These were his words, “We are not enemies but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic cords of memory stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land will yet swell the chorus of the union when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.”

And let us say,

Amen

More Kid’s questions about God…

Q: Do you ever get sick of reading prayers?

A: Nope. I never get sick of reading prayers because every kind of prayer teaches me something. I never get sick of learning. There are lots of payers but there are only four kinds of prayers: thanks, gimme, oops and wow!

 

Thanks prayers teach me to give thanks to God for all my blessings. A blessing is a gift you did not deserve. There are so many blessings that have come to me in my life that I never get sick of remembering them and thanking God for them. The days when I do selfish things are the days that I forgot to say a thanks prayer.

Gimme prayers ask God for something. The tricky part of saying a gimme prayer is to ask God for something you cannot get for yourself with hard work. Asking God to give you some new stuff is almost always a bad gimme prayer. Asking God to heal somebody you love who is sick is always a good gimme prayer.

Oops! prayers are the prayers that tell God that I am sorry for doing something bad to someone else. A bad thing is also called a sin. A sin is a bad thing that God has seen you do. Oops! Prayers are the first thing we do to turn our lives around and get rid of the sins we do. We admit the sin to God in a prayer. The next part of getting rid of sin is to admit our sin to the people we have hurt, and the third thing is to not do the sin again. Oops! Is the beginning of our path to goodness.

Wow! prayers are prayers where we don’t ask God for anything. We just tell God how wonderful the world is and how beautiful and how perfect it is. Whatever you say after you see a rainbow is a wow prayer.

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