Tristan starts Catholic school in September, but I still haven’t found just the right place to start introducing the concepts of God and Jesus and the Church. We had a few goes of it at Christmas, but I don’t think much sunk in. Luckily, a perfect opportunity presented itself in the car recently.<\/p>\n
Tristan<\/strong>: “What’s that little store over there?” (pause)<\/p>\n Tristan<\/strong>: “A church?” I’ll bet you can see this one coming, can’t you?<\/p>\n Tristan<\/strong>: “God?”<\/em> (cringe a little bit, consider some revisions, wait to see how this dust settles first)<\/p>\n (thoughtful pause)<\/p>\n Tristan<\/strong>: “Mommy?” Tristan<\/strong>: “Where did our car come from?” Tristan starts Catholic school in September, but I still haven’t found just the right place to start introducing the concepts of God and Jesus and the Church. We had a few goes of it at Christmas, but I don’t think much sunk in. Luckily, a perfect opportunity presented itself in the car recently. Tristan: “What’s … Continue reading “But where does God buy his car?”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Me<\/strong>: “Um, that’s not a store, sweetie, that’s a church.”<\/em> And please give me credit here for restraining myself on the topic of what they might be selling.<\/p>\n
Me <\/strong>(<\/em>carefully): “A church is where people go to talk to God.”<\/em><\/p>\n
Me<\/strong> (feigning casualness): “Um hmmm. God<\/em>. (pause) Some people believe God created everything – the grass, the trees, the stars and the moon<\/em>. (with growing confidence) Some people believe that God is the father of all of the people in the world.”<\/em><\/p>\n
Me<\/strong>: “Yes, sweetie?”<\/em><\/p>\n
Me<\/strong>: “A car store.”
Tristan<\/strong>: “Oh. Okay.”<\/em>
<\/em>I’m both pleased and unsurprised that our first philosophical discussion on religion has turned out to be rather circular in nature.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"