Please give it back God!

Emmie had chapel at school on Thursday and when she got in the car after school she told me that we can't hear God but he can hear us and we can talk to Him. We talked about this for a few minutes and then carried on with our day.

That afternoon the girls had been playing outside and left their shoes so I sent Emmie out to collect them. She had been out there for awhile and I went to check on her. As I got close to the door I could hear her talking quite loudly and when I opened the door she was saying "give it back! Please give it back!" And sounded quite distressed. Now normally I would have thought she was talking to Franklin but he was inside so I asked her who she was talking to and this was her answer: "I'm asking God to give back Ellie's shoe! I've looked all over and can't find it! (Looks up at the sky) Please God, give it back!!"

I was quite amused at this point so I went out looked around and spied Ellie's shoe across the yard. I pointed it out to Emmie and as I was going back in I heard her say (in a very relieved voice) "Thank you God. Ellie really needed that shoe!".

Now I wonder if this strategy will work on laundry day when I put 2 socks in the dryer and only get 1 back? Please God, give it back!