Mashal- young boy wants to get a gumball from the machine. puts in quarter and turns but nothing happens. tries again but nothing happens tries one more time, still no gumball comes out. opens the cover to see whats blocking the gumballs and sees that theres something blocking the gumballs- he knocks it out and then he gets three gumballs!
we have to keep davening(trying) but if it seems like Hashem isn’t answering, we must check to see if theres a reason(Ex. not enough kavanah, speak lashon harah so muoth isn;t pure…)After work to remove the block, hopefully Hashem will answer. He only asked for one, but got three balls.(explain that sometimes hashem just says no and no matter how hard we try, Hashem doesn’t want us to have it.)
I used this in my classroom for middle elementary and the children related very well to the anticipation and dissapointment of the little boy and were able to give me the nimshal right away.