childlike faith

today, God reminded me of the first time i learned how to pray. I was three or four years old then and this was how my Daddy taught me. he led me to a short prayer:

bless mommy. bless daddy. bless ate. bless nanay. bless tatay... (and i forgot who else to bless but it was a prayer short enough for me to memorize so it must have been pretty much only the ones i mentioned above...):

then told me:

when you pray to God, He will grant you anything you ask for...

i also remember wondering why those were the only things we prayed for since God is definitely sure to grant everything we ask for. i am not exaggerating friends. i really did not get the logic. i was told that i can ask God anything and it will be given to me. and then that's all i will ask from God...? i was hoping we would ask for more stuff. i certainly did not mind spending a bit more time asking. i was a bit confused. but obedient girl that i was, i ended my prayer as soon as daddy ended his. but i had planned to ask God for more stuff. next time. when i'm alone.

i could not remember anymore what happened after that. but reminded of that incident, and the many dreams i've been having lately about children, i know that God wants to shatter certain mindsets i have about prayer and what faith really means. God wants to shatter the adult prayers that make things many times too complicated. do we really think it is commendable to have childlike faith? or have do we see that phrase as just another cliche? do we really believe that it is possible to have childlike faith? or is it something that will forever remain to be for children?

For man, it may be impossible. But nothing is impossible with God. Mark 10:27

God, i surrender to you my impossiblities. who can make me like a child again but you? but even that seems impossible; yet i surrender to you -- yes, even this right to fathom what the word miracle means.