A Child's Prayer to Jesus

“Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.” Matthew 11:28

It is good to come before God in prayer as a weary and heavily burdened human being. It is good to come before God as a needy child and ask for guidance and rest. The important thing is that we go before God in prayer on a regular basis.  Becoming like a child has importance for us as we go before God in prayer. Jesus wants us to be like little children when we pray, to be without pretense.



Ask, and it will be given to you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you.   For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened.  Matthew 7:7-8

Jesus says, come as you are, come before God with all of your problems and worries. Come messy, come with stumbling words. It doesn’t matter if you get prayer right, what matters is that you come before God without any pretense and ask for guidance and help. Trust less in yourself and trust more in God.  On many occasions, Jesus tells his disciples that they need to become like little children. Imagine what these grown men must have thought when Jesus told them that they needed to become like little children. The disciples seemed to have struggled with this teaching of Jesus as we see many instances of Jesus telling them this over and over again throughout the Gospels.  Jesus then took a little child and had the child stand among them. Jesus took the child in His arms and told the disciples that unless they become like children they will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Heavenly Father, we ask You to bless all the babies and little ones and the families for whom we pray. We thank You for the gifts of Your Son Jesus, for the Holy Spirit and for Our Blessed Mother Mary.