在這裡向大家推薦一本“可愛”的英文小品：Children's Letters to God。這本書收集了小孩子親自寫下的禱告，從他們內心深處對上帝發出的童真祈禱。雖然這些禱告文對於我們而言，似乎很幽默和可笑，好像不符合我們的理性思想。但是，這些”好笑”的禱告正展示了一種美麗的誠實和真誠、毫無虛假的心靈，這是耶穌曾經教導他的門徒的天國真理（馬太福音18:2-5）
耶穌便叫一個小孩子來，使他站在他們當中，說：我實在告訴你們，你們若不回轉，變成小孩子的樣式，斷不得進天國。所以，凡自己謙卑像這小孩子的，他在天國裡就是最大的。凡為我的名接待一個像這小孩子的，就是接待我。
這本收集美國小孩的禱告小書，為太過理性和驕傲的我們開啟了對生命、對上帝和世界的提問，鼓勵我們學習更謙卑的對話，與上帝最真誠沒有虛假的對話，這就是與天父的對話。以下精心挑選了一些喜歡的：
- Dear God. Are you really invisible or is that just a trick?
- Dear God. Did you mean for the giraffe to look like that or was it an accident?
- Dear God. Instead of letting people die and having to make new ones why don’t you just keep the ones you got now?
- Dear God. Who draws the lines around the countries?
- Dear God. I went to this wedding and they kissed right in church. Is that OK?
- Dear God. It’s OK that you made different religions but don’t you get mixed up sometimes?
- Dear God. I would like to know why all the things you said are in red?
- Dear God. I am English. What are you?
- Dear God. Thank you for the baby brother but what I prayed for was a puppy.
- Dear God. How come you didn’t invent any new animals lately? We still have just all the old ones.
- Dear God. Please put another holiday in between Christmas and Easter. There is nothing good in there now.
- Dear God. Maybe Cain and Abel would not kill each other so much if they had their own rooms. It works with my brother.
- Dear God. I bet it is very hard for you to love everybody in the whole world. There are only 4 people in our family and I can never do it.
- Dear God. If you watch in Church on Sunday I will show you my new shoes.
- Dear God. I am doing the best I can.
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