Many nights, I take long baths with one of my girls.\u00a0 We sit in pink or purple or blue water, play with Barbies, wash each others hair and just chat about life, homework, friends.<\/p>\n
Tonight, Mary Clare decided to take a bath with me.\u00a0 We chatted about school this week, and her new Bible class on Wednesday nights at First Baptist Church.\u00a0 She explained that she needed to take her Bible next week to make her teacher happy, but she said she would rather go to her “real church” to see God.\u00a0 (I assumed she thought Father Michael from our own church was God, as McCanless thought so many years ago.)<\/p>\n
Before I went on to explain that Father Michael was not God, I asked her where she thinks God lives.<\/p>\n
Her little voice replied, “God lives in your heart” and I almost teared up realizing that she actually learned a few things at her new Bible class.<\/p>\n
A few minutes later as we sat in our purple water, she glared up at my port area, as if to notice it for the first time.<\/p>\n
With her eyes huge and questioning she pointed to my port, which protrudes out pretty far, and asked me,<\/p>\n
“Is God poking his finger out of you?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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