This is the conversation that I heard in the backseat last night as we drove home from Youth Group.
Ayden: “Hey Brekyn, do you know what Jesus did for you?”
Brekyn: “Nope.”
Ayden: “He died on a cross and came back to life….did you know that?”
Brekyn: “Nope.”
Ayden: “And, did you know that right when He died it got all dark outside and the big curtain in the church fell?”
Brekyn: “Nope.”
Ayden (obviously, feeling very good about his biblical knowledge at this point): “Yup, it just tore right in half and fell down!”
(AND THEN THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION...)
Brekyn: “Why?”
Ayden: “Because Jesus died on the cross and the curtain ripped”
Brekyn: (slightly agitated) “Whhyy?”
Ayden: “Because when He died the curtain fell down and I guess it tore when it fell.”
Brekyn: (increasingly agitated) “But, WHHHYYYY?”
Ayden: (In a loud voice) “Brekyn, don’t you get it? Jesus died... it got dark outside and the curtain tore!!”
Brekyn: (in a very loud voice) “BUT WHY?”
Ayden: (at the top of his lungs) “BREKYN, LET’S JUST MOVE ON!”
Mommy’s interjection: Notice I didn’t interrupt this little discussion.
First off, I was too curious about how the conversation would end (and I was very impressed that my 6 year old knew anything about the curtain in the temple)!
Secondly, I myself couldn’t come up with a very effective way of describing why the temple curtain was torn in half to my two year old.
Luckily, Ayden came up with a great line that I will commit to memory and likely use in many future conversations…
I can just see it now:
Brekyn: "Mommy, what are the birds and bees?"
Mommy: “Brekyn, let’s just move on…” :)
1 comment:
cute story. I'm impressed...at least he knows what Christ did for us. Sometimes I really wonder about the spirituality of my kiddos. It wouldn't really shock me to hear Dakota say, "Jesus, who's Jesus?" ;)
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