God Will Fix It

Daddy:

You, me, and Mommy were sitting on the grass outside Taco Bell under the shade of a flagpole while we waited to go pick JJ up from respite care. You were loving your burrito, sometimes taking bites out of the fat tortilla middle where the beans start to leak out.

You found a sticker on your clothes and took it off to show me. Then you folded it up and threw it into the grass.

Mommy said, "Sarah, even though some things on Earth are pretty broken, God wants us to take care of the Earth until he comes back."

You replied, "God will fix it."

Mommy and I looked at each other. Tears began to form in my eyes. After everything going on with JJ and our family and all that we've been learning, your words were so exactly true.

"You're right," Mommy said, "God will come back and fix everything. That's why Jesus died on the cross . . . so he could come back and fix all the broken things."

Darling, please keep teaching us. We love learning from you.

"Beautiful One"

DADDY: It was bedtime, and I was lying alongside your bed. we were talking like you often ask to do at bedtime. After a long, fun chat, I started singing "Beautiful One," which is your favorite song to sing with me (we've been singing it for over a year). I stopped in the middle to ask you who the beautiful one is that we're singing to. You said God. You're right...that's what Daddy has been teaching you. I always worried you might think I chose that song because I think you're beautiful. I'm thrilled you "get it." it's one of the things that makes you my beautiful one.

Jesus Loves Me - Bible

Mommy:
In the car, you were looking at your Bible that doesn't have pictures and you said, "Remember it says, Jesus Loves Me this I know..."

Reading the Bible - Creation

Mommy:
I noticed you were sitting on the futon turning the pages in your picture Bible through the story of creation. We had read you the story a few times and they were talking about it in your class at church. You looked up and asked me, "Where's God?"

Pick It Up - Ska Style

Red Bull Helicopter

You have loved this video for a long time (like a year).

Twinkle Time

You love "Twinkle Time."

This is a group for kids led by a young lady that wears a big orange pig-tail wig.

It Turned Right

Mommy:
We were about to cross the street to get to Nana and Papa's house. They live where a street is perpendicular to the street their house is on. The street dead-ends into their house and the neighbor's. (It's like a T)

We were looking all ways to make sure it was safe and you said, "There's a car!" The car could either turn left and not be safe with where we were going to walk or it could turn right which would not affect us. I paused to see which way it was going to go and as it turned you yelled, "Aw, it turn right!" and smiled. I've never met a two-year-old that uses left and right correctly. I was amazed and once again reminded to never underestimate a baby/toddler's ability.

Joy

Mommy:
We were trying to eat dinner and you were crying and grumpy about something. I said something about you needing to go to your room to find your joy because maybe it got left back there. You walked back into your room and turned right back around and came to the dinner table with a totally different demeanor.

Go. Read the Word.

Mommy: During life group this last week you were playing and interacting with people, like normal. At one point Daddy was opening the Bible to read and discuss some verses and he explained that we were going to open the word of God now and we were going to be "Diggin' in the word of God," a phrase from the Crosspoint VBS song you love.

Fast forward to when I was trying to put you to sleep while life group was still going on. You were doing some of your usual stalling techniques. Finally we closed the door with a child lock on it and you were crying and crying. After I figured you had tired yourself out (and I was heartbroken from your cries and imagining that feeling of being stuck or locked in), I went in to move you from away from the door and into bed. You calmed down pretty quickly after I hugged you and placed you back in bed. Then, with a wave of your outstretched hand towards the door, you said, "Go. Read the word." I followed your directions and you quietly fell asleep.