My three year old is having a difficult time grasping the concept of "God". Specifically, he doesn't understand why the monsters in his closet are make believe when God, who he also can not see, is real. I've tried to read the baby bibles and make him recite prayers (my personal favorite recitation of his night-night prayers: instead of "Soul to keep" it is "Soda keep".
I once explained that God is everywhere and resides in our heart. As a result, he got confused and now points to his tummy when I ask him about God. When he was smaller, a nun in full habit offered a prayer for him and he freaked out screaming "NO!" when she recited "in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost". I think that her habit put him over the edge.
Without getting into a huge liturgical and personal debate on our collective religious beliefs, I'm interested in how you all explain this otherwise nebulous concept. Right now he is as convinced as Karl Marx.
Kelly
I once explained that God is everywhere and resides in our heart. As a result, he got confused and now points to his tummy when I ask him about God. When he was smaller, a nun in full habit offered a prayer for him and he freaked out screaming "NO!" when she recited "in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost". I think that her habit put him over the edge.
Without getting into a huge liturgical and personal debate on our collective religious beliefs, I'm interested in how you all explain this otherwise nebulous concept. Right now he is as convinced as Karl Marx.
Kelly
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