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A DIFFERENT KIND OF JESUS

March 15, 2006
by: jovial_cynic
I had a fun chat with my two-year-old daughter last night as I tucked her into bed. After I prayed with her (which we do every night), I started telling her about how Jesus loves her, and how he watches over her, etc., etc. Even at two, she's a fairly sharp kid, having the entire Lord's prayer memorized. Of course... at two, she doesn't quite have the details down correctly. When she first learned the prayer, she mistook, "and the glory, forever and ever" with "for never never," which sort of changes the meaning of the whole thing.

Anyhow, I started to get a little deeper into theology and so I said, "when you finally meet Jesus face-to-face, He's going to break your heart," alluding to way Christ calls us to sacrifice everything for Him.

Without skipping a beat, my daughter looks up and says to me, "Jesus is going to break my arm?"

Well, that's one bible lesson down the drain. I guess I have to remember that she's still just two years old.
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Dickson said:
i think you are to teach her about christ at her tender age because her mind is just having the correct things imprinted first be4 the things of this world comes in teach a child wisdom and it will not forget even when old and the hair grey. Someday she will say my hero my dad.
March 16, 2006


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