As I mentioned in a previous post, our church life as a family has not been the best for the better part of the last year or so. Lots of reasons for this - one of which being that the church we have been going to just doesn't suit us as a family - the four of us are the only members of the congregation under 60 or so.
We have been doing our best to bring God into the Boy's lives through stories, prayers, songs, bible reading etc. This weekend is the start of our quest to find a new church.
On the songs front, the favourite CD in our house at the moment is Colin Buchanan's "10,9,8 God is great". About track 3 or 4 on that CD is the song "God is everywhere". In the last few days I have been saying to Action Man "Where is God?" and he responds "God is everywhere". Very cute. Yesterday over breakfast I expanded the repertoire by asking "Who does God love?" and then listing the names of the people he knows. The response I got made me smile - he said "got to have a God cuddle". Background to this is that whenever he wants a cuddle he says to the person he wants the cuddle from "got to have a [insert name of desired cuddler] cuddle" - so I get "got to have a mummy cuddle". It was lovely. But wait, there's more ....
This God discussion progressed over dinner to the following questions "Does God like carrots?" as he piles carrots into his mouth (he loves them!), "Does God like sausage?", "Does God like dinner?" and then the best of all "God likes cake mummy" .... to which I responded, "Yes sweetheart, but God knows that cake is a special treat and he has fruit and yoghurt for dinner most nights".
Am I raising a con artist??
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They're very quick to pick up on those things, aren't they? Love the question "Does God like cake?"
We bought the CD "J is for Jesus" at Christmas, and one of the songs is "Jesus is the Boss". Eldest likes to bring that topic up when we're attempting to assert authority: "no, Mummy, you're not the boss - Jesus is the boss!"
My parents have that Colin Buchanan video. One day the firstborn was sitting at home on the floor playing and suddenly said "GUITAR!!!" - my husband didn't know what he was talking about, but I knew it was from Colin!
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