Kids Talk About God: 'How Would You Pray For America?'

   “I would pray that I bless all the people in the world and all the animals, my cat, Rusty, especially,” says Noah, age 6. Noah would also ask God to bless his house and other people’s houses and “to make the parks really fun.”

   Somewhere in Petaluma, California, there’s a blessed cat named Rusty.

   “I pray that everyone in the world has food,” says Clare, 5. We often take for granted the blessings of abundant food when many people suffer from malnutrition and starvation. It’s easy to become desensitized because we’re bombarded with so many media images of starving children.

   Quality organizations like Food for the Hungry and AMG International provide opportunities to sponsor needy children for less than the price of a soft drink or a cup of coffee a day. They care for the whole person by providing physical and spiritual food for children and their families.

   “I pray that all the wars will stop but, most of all, that all kinds of people will know you (God): freaks, jocks, geeks and everyone will know you no matter who it is and what color they are,” says Sandy, 10.

   Heaven’s streets will overflow with earth’s outcasts. Whether empowered outcasts such as tax collectors or freaky outcasts such as the formerly demon possessed, they seized the moment by ...