Conversations with God

Hello God, it’s me, Mara:

You know, Lord, encouragement is like oxygen – we can’t live without it. It was lovely watching two little kids the other day. They were probably both about 3 years old. Little Ricky was trying hard to get the wrapper off of a stick of gun. His friend, Emmy, was watching him, and suggested he watch how she did it. He watched his little neighbor girl slowly unwarp her stick of gum. Then he tried again as she encouraged him, step by step, to unwarp it from the side, not from the top. She chuckled as she said, “You are little, Ricky, but I know you like gum and I know yo...