"Child-like faith"

My dad said to me yesterday, "Well, we are to have child-like faith." I have been repeating this to myself since. Faith that little children have that God can and will fix everything. Isn't it something how age and experience season us to expect less? We expect or anticipate the bottom falling out at any time-make jokes of how things always happen in threes. Truth be known, I'm an optimist on the edge! A few too many trials and I'll be falling in that pit of doubt though. I long for the day when I laugh at trials, spit in the face of adversity, and sing when I want to cry.
A month ago, we noticed a small white patch out in the lawn on the farthest run of our drainfield. Kind of weird since we had just had our septic pumped and everything looked "good" according to the septic dude. The spot was always wet. I had told Paul we needed to get it checked out- dig it up or whatever. And I prayed, as silly as it may sound, that God would fix it- that this spot would go away if it was His will. This spot was worrisome to me because septage can cause hepatitis among other nasty illnesses. Not something you should let go for sure with kids running around. I'm not a nagger- but after a month- nothing had changed except that after the kids showers at night- we noticed that the top of the septic tank was now showing water. This happened last Friday. Not good. To me, a good indication that our drainfield was plugging up in other areas. So I pressed Paul to check into it with company we had out here two months ago for the pumping and see what they thought. They said to go ahead and dig up the area see what's up, maybe a broken segment in the line- which was our thought. Seems easy enough. Paul dug down, reached the top of the pipe and gravel and water started coming up. He left the hole and came back a while later to see that it was filled with effluent water. Hmm. Not what we had expected would happen at all. He buried it up, water still sitting on top of the dirt. It's dried out, but we're steering clear of that area. We're conserving water and at a standstill of what to do next. We'll need to get the Health Department out here to do a perk test, if they determine we need an above ground septic/drainfield- well that's about $6-8000. We've been spared this expense for two years in my eyes- we should have done this prior to the addition anyway. We're seeking prayers here- God's will ultimately, but it would sure be alot less expensive if our perk test indicated that we could "just" put in a new regular drainfield. This would be something we could typically do ourselves whereas the above ground would have to be hired. Pray that the kids will stay safe, pray that the septic doesn't back up into our basement in the meantime, and pray that I will have "child-like faith" throughout the process.
Another thing I have been repeating to myself from an emery board verse at my Grandma's is, "Be still and know that I am God." I'm going to keep saying that and just let all this happen as it's supposed to. Somethings are just out of our control.