A Child’s Prayer

    Heavenly Father,
    are you really there?
    And do you hear and answer
    every child’s prayer?
    Some say that heaven is far away,
    but I feel it close around me as I pray.
    Heavenly Father,
    I remember now,
    something that Jesus told disciples long ago:
    “Suffer the children to come to me.”
    Father, in prayer I’m coming now to thee.

    Pray he is there.
    Speak, he is listening.
    You are his child;
    His love now surrounds you.
    He hears your prayer;
    He loves the children.
    Of such is the kingdom,
    the kingdom of heaven.