Awesome Faith of a Little Boy

A good homeschooling mom makes use of car rides by employeeing math songs, books on CD, or even well-timed sermons.

Today I used the drive time to catechize the kids. If you are Southern Baptist, like 85% of the people that we know, then you don’t know what that means. It isn’t a strange ritual involving felines. Rest assured. We only use dogs in our religious ceremonies, as they are tastier and more acceptable to the Lord.

If you aren’t acquainted with sarcasm, that was a little taste of it for ya. We don’t actually harm animals in our worship. Squirmy little kids may get a pinch or two, though.

Catechism is just asking children a series of questions and teaching them the answers. It’s used to teach basic spiritual concepts, such as who God is. I was asking the children question #7 of The Children’s Catechism (which we’ve had to edit in a few places to appropriately reflect our beliefs), which is “What are the three persons of God?” I explained about God the Father, God the Son, and God the Holy Spirit. We got to the point of me telling them that God sends the Holy Spirit to help us at the same time that He changes our hearts and gives us new ones.

At that point I was pretty intellectually exhausted at having to explain the trinity to preschoolers. I looked in the rearview mirror and saw my five-year old bow his head and cover it with his hands. When he looked up he was smiling.

I asked him, “What did you just do?”

He said, “I just asked God to give me a new heart.”

“Well, what did He say?” I asked him.

“He said ‘Yes’.  And He has my old one.”

The beautifully funny faith of a little child. Praise the Lord for His work in our home and the journey He started us on so many years ago that allowed me to witness a moment of His work in my child.

12:25 AM - Sep. 15, 2009 - post comment

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:) Wow! What an awesome, encouraging moment for you.

Shari

Anonymous - 7:08 AM - Sep. 15, 2009

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Sweet boy. Sweet momma. Good Family.

Annoying Newlywed - 7:35 PM - Sep. 16, 2009

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