Snow and the Prayers of Children

The reason for all the snow, and the 'snow event' (don't you love the modern way of putting things now) is not due to global warming, climate change, carbon footprints, SUV emissions, the residue of airbuses, Al Gore's forty room mansion heated to tropical temperatures, O'Bama's sending out to Chicago for brick oven pizza by jet, no. It is, according to one of the priests in his request last Sunday, from children. "Please," he began in quite a desperate beseeching tone, "have your children stop praying for snow." On my walk home over the mountainous drifts I thought about this and realized the priest had good theology backing up his request. Yes, I would concur that a child's prayers, because his heart is more able to trust, are---as we are being made more and more aware---quite efficacious, especially in New England.