So it was one evening when Daughter # 2, then four years old, looked up from her plate with a question that caught her dad and me off guard.
“Where do babies come from?” she inquired.
Her dad and I looked at each other. Where had THAT question come from
and how would we begin to answer it right at that moment? Before either
of us could speak however, Daughter # 1, with all the knowledge she had
gained in her almost eight years, rolled her eyes, laid down her fork,
took a deep breath and looked straight at her sister.
“Don’t even ask ‘cause you’ll never believe it!”
Are there things in our lives that are just difficult to believe? I remember when I found out the truth about Santa. I couldn’t believe it ‘cause hadn’t I just seen him up on the square? In school, it was hard to believe some of the facts about different countries; difficult to understand how far away the moon was when it looked so close in the night sky. As a mother, it is difficult for me to understand how a mother could abort her own flesh and blood. Or why would anyone want to murder a school room full of young children? Or why a so-called religious group would want to murder those they believe to be infidels?
It was difficult for me to believe the crucifixion the first time I heard it as a child. Why would any father allow his son to die on a cross for what I had done? And, yet, because He loves us so much; because we are His children and because we have all sinned, Someone had to pay for those sins in order for us to go to Heaven for eternity. As a parent, it is still difficult for me to grasp that idea but I accept it by faith and thank Him every day for His love for me.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6
“Don’t even ask ‘cause you’ll never believe it!”
Are there things in our lives that are just difficult to believe? I remember when I found out the truth about Santa. I couldn’t believe it ‘cause hadn’t I just seen him up on the square? In school, it was hard to believe some of the facts about different countries; difficult to understand how far away the moon was when it looked so close in the night sky. As a mother, it is difficult for me to understand how a mother could abort her own flesh and blood. Or why would anyone want to murder a school room full of young children? Or why a so-called religious group would want to murder those they believe to be infidels?
It was difficult for me to believe the crucifixion the first time I heard it as a child. Why would any father allow his son to die on a cross for what I had done? And, yet, because He loves us so much; because we are His children and because we have all sinned, Someone had to pay for those sins in order for us to go to Heaven for eternity. As a parent, it is still difficult for me to grasp that idea but I accept it by faith and thank Him every day for His love for me.
“Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct your paths.” Proverbs 3:5-6
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