Sometimes when I explain things to my children, I make the gospel more complicated than it really is. Thankfully I've got these kids to simplify things for me, and to remind me that teachable moments don't have to be scripted and planned. Often the most teachable moments happen when we're right in the middle of doing something else, like playing chase, or reading quietly to ourselves.
Caleb: I'm going to heaven on a truck!Abby: No Caleb, you can't go to heaven on a truck. Jesus is the only way to get to heaven.Caleb: I'm going to heaven on a bus!Abby: No Caleb, Jesus is the only way to get to heaven.Caleb: I'm going to heaven on a ship!Pause.Abby: Mommy, can we go to heaven on a ship?Me: No sweetie, you were right. Jesus is the only way to get to heaven.Pause.Abby: Caleb, you can't go to heaven on a ship. Jesus is the only way to get to heaven.
And later, Abby composed this song, which I transcribed for posterity as she danced through the kitchen singing to herself:
God made the world
The Lord made everything in the world
He made books to read
He made airplanes to fly
He made a ship to float
He made something else
Lots of things
The Lord He made a road for us to go up to heaven
Dump trucks and buses
He made them
He made everything
He made a bicycle for us to ride
He made wagons
He made ships
He made a rider and the wheels
He made fire and firetrucks
And then he made an ice cream car
And Caleb likes the blue and Jacob likes the green and I like the pink
And He made the truck and He made the driver too
And then he made another thing of the Lord
The end
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