1st Writes is participating in the 2013 April A to Z Blogging Challenge.
This year our theme is "Attributes of God from A to Z".
Join us each day as we explore
the characteristics of our awesome God!
Now to the King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, be honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
1 Timothy 1:17
"What does God look like?" my four-year-old daughter asked.
"Well, He looks like us," I replied, thinking of how we were made in His image.
"Like a girl?" she wondered.
"Well, no. Like a human," I tried to clarify.
"I don't get it," she said.
I knew she wasn't 'getting' it, but wasn't sure how to explain. I tried my best: "Well, no one has ever seen God. He's a spirit."
"Like a ghost?"
"No! He's not like a ghost. He's...everywhere - in everyone and everything. We just can't see Him."
"Oh, you mean He's inbisible."
"Yes. That's right - He's invisible."
"Why didn't you just say so in the first place, you silly goose?"
Why indeed?
©2013 Brianna Renshaw
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I love this conversation. Kids get right down to the plain and simple true. "Inbisible"--so cute!
ReplyDeleteCute conversation. Kids get the things that we try to make so complicated. That's why Jesus said, "let the children come to me."
ReplyDeleteBrianna, Yes, you are a silly goose! Thank you for sharing this. I love all the little stories you tell about Monkey. I wish I had been "writing" when Gillian was a little child. I scrapbooked instead (and that is good), but I wish I had the words.
ReplyDeleteOut of the mouth of babes - so good!
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