A single key.
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What do you say to a child who has just thrown the only key to the back door of your parents home somewhere into the garden and is now realizing the shortsightedness of their choice made in anger and realizes they have locked themselves out of the house and will likely incur the displeasure of their grandparents?
This is the question I was asking myself as I stood the other side of a locked door looking at my oldest child. He had already attempted and failed to find the key and was visibly sad as he stared at his family preparing for breakfast around the dining table.
I looked at him for a moment and said, “why don’t you kneel down and tell Heavenly Father what you have done and ask him if he would be willing to help you find the key.”
My son then proceeded to kneel down and pray. I couldn’t hear the words of the prayer but immediately my mind recalled something my wife had told me a few days earlier.
She had told me of a conversation between her and our son where he had said that he never felt Jesus in his life.
As this thought started swirling I closed my eyes and uttered a short but fervent prayer that God would answer my sons prayer so that he would know, like I do, that there is a God in heaven who hears and answers prayers.
My son arose from his knees and went to look again. This time he returned with key! A miracle, especially with our sons past record of finding anything.
As soon as the door was unlocked I sat with him and said, “do you realize what just happened? God heard and answered your prayer!”
We are homeschooling whilst we are in England so I assigned him to write and record this experience so that he could always remember this experience.
The cynic will say it was coincidence. But I choose to believe it was a miracle. Today God heard and helped both my son and I to know he hears us.
Sometimes the subtle hand of God in our lives can be easy to miss if we are preoccupied. But to those who ask, they sooner or later learn that God does both hear and answer even the simplest heartfelt prayer.
