A rabbi must be proficient in speaking to different audiences. A bar mitzvah charge looks different than a wedding address. Teaching a Torah class is distinct from speaking to a group of a different faith.

The most daunting experience is entering a preschool classroom. This week, I was invited to our Douglas Family Early Childhood Center at Sinai Akiba Academy. The students had questions about God.

The opening question from a four-year-old was, “Does God make wishes for us?”

What a brilliant insight. So often we focus on our wishes we have for God. Yet, we do not ask ourselves: what does God want from us?

They told me God wishes for us to have community, God wishes for us to have clothing and food, and God wishes us to have peace.

I then asked the students, “What does God look like to you?” A young boy raised his hand and quietly said, “God is in a mirror.” When we look into a mirror, we see ourselves, and when we see ourselves, we see the image of God. No one is too old or too young to access the Divine.

In the Haftorah this Shabbat, we hear God’s call to Jeremiah as a prophet. God tells Jeremiah, “Do not say you are just a boy.”

We must not discount our youngest thinkers. As we learn from Jeremiah, they are the future. They are the hope for tomorrow.