church and god

with the season of chrismas upon us, little miss and i have been going to church more often-trying to start a little early on the new years resolutions- so of course this starts to raise questions about god and jesus and everything that surrounds it. especially since we have had to have the talk about the fact that christmas is not about presents. and the talk about why she is getting a little brother instead of a little sister :) so these are a few more converstaions little miss and i have had about all of those things.

first i should start with our on going converstions about her brother- "why am i getting a little brother instead of a little sister?" easiest answer from me "because god decided to give you one"....okay :)

she likes to ask about where everything she has is from- ex.penny puppy is from grandma-olivia is from daddy- her basketball is from santa- those types of things. so a few weeks ago when we had a friend over she was talking about where she got her panties from....she told her friend- "god gave them to me" i about fell over laughing. and then had to explain to her that god didnt really give out those types of presents, and that mommy and daddy had bought those for her.

so when we go to church and she walks up with me to get communion she gets very disapointed about not being about to get one too. i tell her shes not old enough yet, well after her birthday and turning 4 she now says...."but im older!" when we get back to our pew she kneels with me and we pray-we tell god thank you for the people in our lives and we name each of her friends and their parents and she names penny, and alexi, and finally gets around to mom and dad and sometimes even throws in her baby brother. its so sweet to hear.

so this lead to my next story...cant quite remeber what brought it about, but little miss decided she needed a thrid hand. so she told josh and i, "i want a third hand, im going to pray to god and ask him for one." she has now said this a few times. she even told josh she would pray to god for him to have and extra hand too.

she has also already decided that since she is getting a baby brother this time that her baby brother needs a baby sister. i told her she needed to talk to her daddy about that one, but she has said, "im going to ask god to give my baby brother a sister". :)

my favorite story right now though is this-we were in church a the other da, and since its the christmas season, they of course have the nativity scene out. she asked me what it was and i explained that it was kind of like a picture of jesus' birth. so she wanted to know who jesus's mom and dad were. i told her god is jesus' dad and mary is his mom. she looks at me and asks "does she have a little lamb" i thought i was going to fall out of my chair at church. luckily it was before church had actually started and it wasnt too quite just yet. i told her....well i am sure this mary did have a little lamb, or a few, but that it wasnt the same mary as in the song. i love the way a 4 year olds mind works. she always keeps us laughing.