Tiny Prayers

     The day started out with a sprinkling rain that started near the end of a cramped car ride. After setting up the Museum display and the small sale table, it started to rain a cold almost icy rain. That alone was a bit strange, seeing as it is the end of August. As the day went on it continued to rain and we were all rather cold and debating about staying or leaving. 

     Slowly people started showing up despite the weather. Everything was rather normal as a day goes, until a group of youngsters showed up and the oldest of them wanted to know about a few items I had out. First I explained to him about the medicine bag, but that didn't seem to be what he was looking for. His attention was drawn to the tiny Guatemalan Worry Dolls. He asked me what they are for, so I read him the simple instructions that come with the small bag of tiny figures. He asked me "Why would somebody need the worry dolls?". I told him "Sometimes people use them to tell their problems to before going to bed, because they have a lot of problems that go thru their mind and it makes it hard for them to sleep. And sometimes just by getting those problems out before going to bed, helps the people to sleep". He asked his grandmother if she would buy him a bag of them, she told him she would buy a bag to split up between him and his brothers. He seemed a bit concerned, and asked politely, if his brothers could split a bag and if he could get a bag of his own. She told him no, and maybe he would like to look around a bit more before making a decision on what to get. So they left to go look around the event.

     A few hours later it had grown considerably colder and still rainy and we were ready to pack up and call it a day. As we were packing up and loading the car for the cramped ride home, the youngster showed back up and asked if we had any of the Worry Dolls left. We did and he bought a bag of them and ran off to find his brothers. As we continued to pack up, this young child came back again and again to politely ask if we had another bag of the Worry Dolls. Mind you if this had only happened once or even twice I most likely not have even paid attention. But this happened six times. Each time as the child approached his word "Do you have another bag of those worry dolls?" sounded more and more desperate. 

     After the fourth time the child asked for a bag of the dolls and ran off to find his younger brothers, he asked "Can I wish for something instead of telling my problems", he was told, "You can if you want to, but the real one who is you are telling your wish to is God, and God is the one who really hears your wishes. And what you should really do is pray, and if you don't know what prayer means, it is just talking to God like I am talking to you. But there is one thing that you must do" and he asked "What is that?" "You must not doubt, you have to believe in what you are wishing and praying for, and believe, believe, believe, and never doubt. Do you understand all that?" He replied a simple "yap" smiled and ran off to find his brothers. He returned one final time to ask, "Do you please have one more bag of the worry dolls? Or are they all gone?" He got the last bag of the dolls and went to his brothers.

     I can not help but wonder what in this boys life is going on that he was so concerned that all of his brothers got a pack of these dolls to tell their problems to. I hope he knows of God and the loving ways. This has tugged at my heart to the point I wrote this. I have taken the money that this young child paid for the bags of tiny dolls and feel that the best thing to do with it is to start a fund with it to help children like this who live in our own community, whom have such problems in their young lives that the comfort of a tiny doll can bring. I cannot stop wondering if our conversation about God and Prayer helped this youngster out.

There are many children who need a prayer and some tiny encouragements to help them in life. So if you could be so kind as to say a helping prayer for these young children, I'm sure they could use it.

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