Thursday morning, my six-year-old son and I went to his doctor appointment. He's looked so forward to it, because he'd get to listen to his own heartbeat (which he thinks is so cool).
Toward the end of the appointment, my son kept asking our Jewish doctor (who was also my pediatrician, fyi) if he could tell him something. So when we were all finished with his exam, the doctor asked my son what he wanted to say. Here's what he said:
"Do you know that Jesus is in my heart?
And when I have bad dreams or get scared of monsters, He comes out of me with His magic powers and boom, boom, He fights the monsters and bad dreams.
And if He gets tired or loses His power, His friend--God--comes and helps him and fills him with more magic, so He can defeat them."
Bless our doctor's heart. He looks at my son and says, "No, I didn't know that."
A good reminder of how our young children watch us and say things we say, believe what we tell them, and share it with those around them.
Even at age 6.
