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Our daughter D'Lane, 4, couldn't understand what her daddy Dale did for a living. Since I usually pick up my husband's check on payday, I took D'Lane with me to the fertilizer plant where he worked.
Noticing the puffs of white smoke billowing from the stacks, D'Lane had a revelation. "Now I know what Daddy does. He helps God make clouds!"
—Nita Walker Frazier
Plainview, Texas
Driving with his uncle Tim one evening before Christmas, my six-year-old grandson Raymond noticed Venus brightly shining in the southern sky. Tim asked if it might be the star that led the wise men to Bethlehem. "Maybe," Raymond answered, "but we don't have to go and search for Jesus. They found him already!"
— Levi Dueck
Morris, Manitoba
For three years, we had a sheep ranch in western Nebraska. Each year, we sheared some sheep, sold some, and butchered a few lambs for leg-of-lamb for our family and our cattle-raising relatives.
In 1990, we moved to Indiana, so I could attend seminary. One Sunday, my three-year-old son Ian was learning about the Good Shepherd in his class.
"Ian, your dad was a shepherd," the teacher said. "What did he do with the little lambs?" She expected to hear about the care and protection I provided them.
"He kills them and cuts off their heads," was Ian's blunt reply.
The teacher was dumbstruck. Later, I "sheepishly" suggested that next time she could tie it in with Jesus' role as the sacrificial Lamb.
— William Engebretsen
Laurel, Nebraska
My eight-year-old daughter Jessica invited her best friend Sammi to sleep over. The girls tried to memorize the books of the New Testament by using a song.
Every five minutes, Jessica got stumped. "Mom, what comes after Luke?" Pause.
"What comes after Romans?" Finally, the girls reached Ephesians.
Trying to pick up the song again, she asked seriously, "Okay, what comes after amphibians?"
—Tammy Maynor
East Bank, West Virginia
My five-year-old son Glenn learned "My Country 'Tis of Thee," in kindergarten.
One day my husband mentioned that one of his foreign co-workers was returning to his home country. I asked what country he was from, but my husband didn't know.
To which Glenn piped up, "Maybe he's from 'Tis of Thee."
—Darcy Lucchi
Rahway, New Jersey
As I walked into my friend's house, her daughter Greta, 7, greeted me. Excitedly, she showed me her new W.W.J.D. bracelet, saying, "I always have to ask 'What Would Jesus Do' before I do anything."
Knowing the sibling rivalry between Greta and her 10-year-old brother Jon, I said, "Well, Greta, that means you can't fight with Jon because Jesus wouldn't fight with Jon."
She pointed her finger at me and said, "Jesus wouldn't even play with Jon!"
—Lenae Bulthuis
Renville, Minnesota
When my husband Greg left his 9-to-5 job and started a home business, we explained to our three-
and five-year-old girls, Anna and Laura, that Daddy didn't have to go to an office anymore. He had a new office in the basement and people would pay him to do projects.
It sounded somewhat suspicious though when we overheard Anna tell her friend,
"Daddy doesn't have to go to work anymore. He just makes money in the basement."
—Judi Gaudio
Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania
My six-year-old son David and his grandmother were taking a walk and detoured through the local graveyard. Stopping to read the tombstones, Grandma explained that the first date was the day the person was born and the second date was the day the person died.
"Why do some tombstones only have one date?" David asked.
"Because those people haven't died yet," his grandmother explained.
That night, David couldn't stop talking about the excursion. "Mom," he said with wide eyes, "some of the people buried there aren't even dead yet!"
—Kathy Dinnison
Springfield, Virginia
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January/February 1999, Vol. 37, No. 1, Page 10
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