A Childs Prayer

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1. Heav - en - ly
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Fa - ther, are you real - ly there? And do you hear and an - swer ev - ry

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childs prayer? Some say that heav - en is far a - way, But I feel it

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lis - tning. You are his child; His

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close a - round me as I pray. Heav - en - ly Fa - ther, I re -
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love now sur - rounds you. He hears your

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mem - ber now Some - thing that Je -sus told dis- ci- ples long a- go: Suf- fer the chil - dren to come to
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prayer; He loves the chil - dren. Of such is the

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me. Fa - ther, in prayer Im com - ing now to thee. 3. Heav - en - ly thee.

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king - dom, the king - dom of heavn. heavn.

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Words and music: Janice Kapp Perry, b. 1938 Matthew 19:14

1984 by Janice Kapp Perry. This song may be copied for incidental, Doctrine and Covenants 112:10
noncommercial church or home use.

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