Gods Children

While Olivia and Nora napped this afternoon I sat in bed, thankful for the rest and time alone. I was reading a book called "Kisses From Katie" about a young woman who left everything in her loving, well-off Tennessee home, to serve and love children in Uganda. I was in the middle of the book when Olivia came downstairs, hair tousled from a really good nap. You crawled in bed with me and asked if I was doing my bible study. I love that "doing my bible study" is a normal scene for you. I will always try to model faithful and healthy behavior for you and your sisters. But I explained that this time I was reading a special book about a woman who takes care of children who have no parents, no home, no food, and no clothes. I showed you pictures in the book of this Katie loving these children, giving them a home, food and clothes, playing and smiling with them. You let me read for a little while longer and then asked to see the pictures again. You picked out details about what the children were doing and told me about them. But then you asked me a question.... "Does God have children?" 

I said...Yes Olivia!!! God does have children and you are one of them, I am one of them, and these girls in the pictures are also his children. "Whaaaat?! I didn't know he had children!" Yes sweet girl he made us and loves us so much. We are all special and important to Him "I know mama...I just didn't God has children. That's crazy."  

I love these sweet little conversations of discovery. And I never want to forget them.