A little girl was about to undergo a dangerous operation.  Just before the doctor administered the anesthetic, he said: Before we can make you well, we must put you to sleep.  The girl responded: "Oh, if you are going to put me to sleep, then I must say my prayers first."  And she folded her hands, closed her eyes, and said: "Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep. If I should die before I wake; I pray the Lord my soul to take. And this I ask in Jesus' sake. Amen.

Later on the surgeon admitted that he prayed that prayer that night for the first time in thirty years.