First of all, let me just THANK YOU for all the comments and emails you sent regarding yesterdays post.
I love it when I spill my heart, and there you all are….spilling yours too.
Community does take time….and we are getting there slowly and surely.
Thank you for helping us get there.
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On another note, I’ve been wanting to share this text message Jimmy sent me about a conversation he had with Taylor a few weeks ago after Jiu Jitsu.
It’s actually taken me that long to wrap my head around the fact that THIS is the brain God has trusted us to raise.
{written out just as it was sent.}
“Taylor is sharp, so smart that it is shocking. He started talking about how he doubts God is real again.
I said, ‘Well, then how does it make sense that everything exists?’
And without hesitating he said, ‘Well think about this dad, the universe was always here.”
And I said, ‘But that doesn’t make sense, someone had to create it.’
And again without hesitating he said, ‘Well then it doesn’t make sense to say God was always here either, if you say God was always here, then I say the universe was just always here and there isn’t a God. It’s the same thing.'”
next text….
“We kept talking about this and I asked him what it was in particular that made him doubt, and he said, ‘Because I don’t see God.’
And I said, ‘You don’t see the wind.’
And again without hesitating he said, ‘Ya, but you see what the wind does.’
And I said, ‘Exactly, just like God, you see what He does.’
Then he smiled, he liked that.
Isn’t that amazing how smart he is at 6?”
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I know, right?!?
Now that I think about it, I think God has entrusted more so JIMMY to raise his brain, because the Lord knows if that had come up with me, it would have gone a little more like this….
“Honey…that’s sweet. But, just have FAITH and BELIEVE. Now do you want to watch Friends and Hero’s of the Bible and learn more about David and Goliath?”
And apparently that wouldn’t have solved anything for him.
I guess what works for me doesn’t work for everyone.
But, I am so thankful that Taylor is asking those questions now...
and especially that he’s asking Jimmy, who apparently had those same questions at the age of 6.
And somehow my incredible husband just knows how to make sense of it all.
He is able to do the same with me.
Because sometimes having FAITH and BELIEVING needs a little more to back it up.
As I am learning that lesson right along with Taylor.
I may have always grown up a “christian” but I certainly never dared to question it all.
And for so long, I didn’t know WHY I believed it….
I just….did.
I inherited it from my parents….which wasn’t enough to get me through.
And that’s why I love that Taylor questions it.
Because I am confident he will find his OWN faith much sooner than I did.
And he won’t believe simply because it’s just what his mom and dad told him to…
It’ll be because God has made it known to him in a way he could understand at the time he needed to make it his own.
And now even more so, each one of us is growing and learning, because of HIM.
You guys, THAT is the brain we are raising.
And he’s only 6.
We still have many many years ahead of us, and many more tough questions to come.
Hold me now.
Because Jimmy has a long road ahead of him, while I’m busy praying us through.
© 2011 “Le Musings of Moi”
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