A Praying Life by Paul Miller
Week 4: Chapter 4 — Become Like a Little Child
Read Chapter 4 of A Praying Life ("Become Like a Little Child").
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Miller spends this chapter unpacking what childlikeness actually looks like in prayer — and it is not naivety. It is a specific kind of trust that is available to adults who have been battered by life.
Discussion Questions
6 questions1.Miller identifies several qualities of children that make them natural pray-ers: they ask without shame, they live in the present, they don't hide their emotions, and they persist without embarrassment. Which of these qualities do you most lack in your own prayer?
2.He draws a contrast between a childlike heart and a childish heart — one grows in trust through difficulty, the other becomes entitled or demanding. How do you distinguish between the two in practice?
3.Miller argues that cynicism — which he calls "the adult disease" — is the greatest enemy of childlike prayer. Where has life trained you to be cynical, and how has that cynicism affected the way you approach God?
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