I know. . I've been gone. But then only like 3 people read this, so really it's ok. Where have I been? Doing all the things I was doing when I was blogging, only without the blogging. Oh and I'm having a crisis of lack of faith. As in, I'm considering believing. Which made this little exchange I'm about to describe, really, really awkward. (The two really's show I mean business)
We were at some store looking for a new puzzle or game to do as a family. -Oh yeah, we are playing games together almost every day. It is wonderful and I feel all fuzzy for it, but I'm sick of the 5 games we actually play. So, we're looking for good games and puzzles and I see that baby girl is looking kinda distressed over this puzzle. I figure it's some Barbie thing that she knows I won't let her get. I usually let it go, she knows the rules and i don't need to rub it in. She won't stop staring though, with her sad little face, so I take a peek.
Instead of a garish image of all that a girl will never grow up to be, I see a very graphic rendition of the crucifixion. I wasn’t sure what to do. She saw me peek, frowned even more and then stuffed the box behind some others. I asked her if she was ok. She nodded and hugged my leg. She said she didn’t like that box. She said she was sad that someone had hurt that man
I wasn’t sure what to tell her, I don’t really know if I believe but I don’t want to stop her from trying to either.
So I took a slow breath and then said something really close to this.
"There was a man named Jesus, who lived a very long time ago before most people had learned to treat each other with respect. He was very kind and he wanted people to be peaceful and happy. A lot of people felt that he had great answers to their questions and so they looked up to him. Some other people who had power didn't want to share it with Jesus and when he would not stop trying to help people they became very angry and killed him.
Even though it hurt he didn’t mind because he believed that he would go to a place called heaven and feel no pain, only love and peace. Even though that picture is of something very ugly and mean, people used it to remember what can happen if we cannot live with peace and understanding for each other."
Not bad for a life long atheist huh?
No guilt on the first born being a ‘sinner’? –Check.
No telling her what is truth? –Check
Keeping the ugly far enough away that he can rest easy at night? – Check.
Oh, and I didn't beat whoever did the puzzle display. I mean, I'm not quite sure who may or may not be watching me.
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