Telling stories to small children is always an interesting adventure - at least to my children. Because they somehow end up telling parts of their own stories in the middle of your story and adding their own personal commentaries along the way. This past Sunday, in our house church, Daddy was telling a story to the kids. It started out as the story of the Israelites in the desert who were being bitten by snakes because they were complaining and disobeying God. So God told Moses to make the bronze snake statue and lift it up so that the Israelites could look at in order to be saved. Then Daddy proceeded to make the spiritual bridge to how we need to look at Jesus, who was lifted up on the cross, in order to be saved. Daddy didn't get very far with this because as soon as the boys heard snake, they had their own stories going. Somehow our story meandered off to Jesus' temptation in the desert. So while we're trying to get back on the subject of Moses and Israelites, Joshua pipes up and says that if he had seen that snake he would (and I quote) "Chop it up with a sword, then throw it in the mud. Then I would laugh at it." With that conclusion we decided that storytime was over and it was time to pray.
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You know, at times like those, there's nothing else you can do. I can't tell you how many times I've said, "Well...I think Mommy will just pray today. Let's pray NOW." :o)
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I can so relate to that too. Sometimes the things that Sam says are right on, but others I wonder where he's really going with the story and whether it's important for it to be right or not. Don't even get me started on kate.
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