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When I was 5, I was introduced to the idea of faith and the power of prayer. My mother, a devote Christian, saw it as a parenting duty to teach her children the ideas and tenets of her faith. I loved to be with my mother and that day I was in her room playing and talking while she folded the laundry. I was asking her about God and prayer I don’t know if it was because I really was interested or if I just wanted her to respond to me in a way that affirmed that I was important to her. I ended up with more than her affirmation, I received God’s.
In answer to my question my mother responded “I have a story for you. In the Bible Jesus says that if you have just a little bit of faith, you can move a mountain.” I did not know then that she was referring to Matthew 17:20. But she continue “There was a woman who read that in the Bible and then prayed for a mountain that she could see to be move. Well nothing happened. She looked up from her prayer and saw the mountain still sitting there and she said ‘I knew that would not work.’”. I left my mother’s room then and headed to the family room, mulling over what I had just heard. If you had just a little faith and believed that it would happen, it would. All sorts of possibilities opened up to me. I looked out the big sliding glass doors into our suburbia backyard. Mountains were still on my mind. “How fun it would be to have a mountain in the backyard.” I thought. But being the sensitive child that I was I carried my idea out and realized “No, that wouldn’t be good. Our neighbors house might be hurt.” So I modified my request. “What about a hill instead? No, that might hurt our two large Oak trees in the backyard. OK what about a small hill, one that would not hurt anything but be big enough for us kids to run up and down and play on.” That was it! I prayed for my small hill then ran off to play not thinking much about it.
Ten years passed and while looking out the back door at the age of 15 I realized that prayer had been answered. Many years before, when I was six my father had bought a load of sand and had it delivered in the backyard. Time passed and he never got around to spreading the sand. Grass grew on it and us kids had played, running up and down it’s sides. God does listen, even to a 5 year olds wishfull prayer.
… “I assure you, even if you had faith as small as a mustard seed you could say to this mountain,’Move from here to there,’ and it would move. Nothing would be impossible.” Matthew 17:20