She hated it and never fails to let me know that she never wants to go to church with me again. Bummer. I joke about it with her now, even though I really would love for her to want to go back. Tis life I guess.
Anyway, now that I have officially settled into the "church lady" role in my family, Bryn and I frequently have conversations about God. The cool thing is that often times Kamo is in the same room when these conversations come up. Which then proceed to more grown up conversations about God.
This particular time Bryn was really excited to show me her Bible. I was surprised she had a Bible and in fact I had just bought her one for Christmas. Darn it, I thought. But the Bible she brought was the real deal. It was definitely made for a little kid but still small print and a bit hard for her to read.
So as I was finishing my sloppy joe my sister had so lovely made me, she read to me out of her Bible. And we proceeded with Bible nerd talk. And before you go all crazy and say I gave her too much info, I will call you crazy for two reasons:
1. First off Kami was in the room and she may have looked busy but she was totally listening and piping in here and there.
2. Little kids have amazing minds. They are like sponges. I wish my students wanted to learn as much as Brynley does. Besides the week before she recited Bible verses to me that she has memorized for this thing she goes to at her friend's church.
But it was great. We talked about the Old Testament and the New Testament. We talked about how all the books are important but in the New Testament we learn about Jesus. In fact at that point we talked about the Gospels and then she read out of Luke chapter 2. She asked such sweet questions like, "What's a shepherd?". She flipped to the front and and asked what "contents" meant. I told her this page showed all the books in the Bible, 73 to be exact. Which on a side note isn't completely accurate because I am sure it was a Protestant Bible. Then she asks, "Well which ones do I have?" That made me kind of laugh because it was cute. "You have all of them!", I told her. She was amazed that 73 books could fit into what looked like one book.
That day Kami also shared with me that her friend in the new neighborhood they moved into had given her a Bible and a daily devotional type of thing. It was one for moms, so she talked about how much she could relate to it. All in all, I would say we three had a good time Bible-nerding it up.
Here's a pic of Bryn reading the Bible I got her for Christmas to her baby brother.
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