"Are you misunderstood sometimes?"

Do you ever say something, know exactly what you mean, but someone else doesn’t understand?

That happened recently in a worship service I was in. The kind woman calls all of the children together for a special time with them. She talks about thanking God for all of the good things in life. The little ones list a lot of things to thank God for. Next, she asks the children if they like to be praised when they do something right. Of course, they all do. So she talks about how we are to praise God for all of the good stuff in life and asks, “Now how do we praise God?”

All the children sit silently for a moment. The woman prompts them a bit by pointing to her mouth and says, “What do we do with these?” And the cutest little girl pops up, all excited because she knows the answer, and says, “You brush them!” (Of course, the woman was pointing to her lips, not her teeth.)

The great thing about talking with God is God understands. Even when you can’t find the right words, or say one thing and mean another, God knows your heart. So talk to God. Then listen to life.