Sunday, May 24, 2009

Where's Jesus now?

We told Serena that Jesus is always with her. (This was partly in response to some monster concerns and the need to offer her some reassurance so we could go downstairs to finish watchng the next episode of 24) So she asked, of course, looking around, “Where is he?” and we told her he lives in her heart. She accepted this for the most part but we can tell she's trying to make sense of it. Some conversations along those lines:
Staring intently across the dinner table – “Look, there’s Jesus! Right there. Do you see him? He has a green shirt!” I agreed with her– whom am I to argue?
Another dinner time, “Jesus is in my belly.”
And once after dinner, standing on her chair, Serena had her shirt pulled up and chest bared. I asked her why she had her shirt up. “Jesus is coming out!” Apparently he could get through flesh and bone, no problem, but the shirt fabric would have been tricky – good thinking.

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