I had a fun experience with Katie Sunday evening that I thought I'd share. We were up in my room, and Katie was playing various games she was inventing with the books on my bookshelf. She decided that each of the books was a note book (in her game, meaning a book full of music notes for the songs she started inventing).
She would lay the books in a row or another pattern, then tell me what each book had a song for (a theme of some kind), and then have me choose a book for her to sing from. She would then hold up the book (all of which were novels, not music books of any kind, making the game that much more fun for Mommy) and begin to sing the song to me.
There was a definite theme to her game. All of the songs had something to do with Jesus and how he loves us. In one song, she sang about how Jesus had all of us in his hands. (She'd heard the song, "He's Got the Whole World in His Hands" for the first time earlier that day, so while her song was nothing like the one everyone is now singing in his/her head, it had that same message.) In another, she simply sang how He loves us over and over again.
We had one stray song that really made me laugh. She went from Jesus loves us to a song about how Jesus teaches us to make paper boats. Her song said he teaches us to make paper boats because he helps with everything, or something like that. It was a really cute tangent. I would love to know where the paper boat came from. To my knowledge, she's never made a paper boat. :)
It was an enchanting evening. She went full force with this game for over an hour, and every single song was about Jesus. Most were simply about how He loves us. Each one was slightly different, but all had that same message.
Sometimes, we feel like if we don't know everything about religion, God, Jesus, how the world works, etc. that we don't know enough. But really, what's important? Jesus Christ loves me, He died for me, and then he rose again on the third day so that I can live with Him again. If we go through life knowing nothing more than Katie shared in her little song-tesimonies, isn't that enough?
Just a thought.
