Matthew 10-12

Thing 1&2 are staying at grandparents...will be read to this evening by papa....enjoy the dialogue from thing 3&4
CH 10 - Thing 3 wants to know how you find your life if your alive? Once your alive how do you loose it for Jesus? Seemed satisfied to understand once someone gives their life to Jesus they will truly find life...discussed martyrs some last night and he believes he'd be tough enough to stand up for Christ...Thing 4 wanted to know about the wolves seems both boys are intrigued with fighting against wolves and asked if you could be led into the desert to be eaten by wolves?? I assume this train of thought could be from the AVATAR game for the Wii they purchased at local game swap store...Thing 3 is pretty stoked about being as wise as a serpent...don't think he bought into being as harmless as a dove...Thing 4 wanted to know if the cup of water was for a boy or a girl...think he wanted an excuse to give a girl a cup of water....scary thing he is quite the ladies man.
CH 11 - For thing 3&4 this was the first time the word mourn got their attention and needed a definition...Both were also intrigued by the least in the kingdom of heaven being greater than John...when explained John was the last of the OT (0riginal Testament, I hate the world Old) prophets they were pretty excited to be "greater" than John considering they think the locust and honey eating, camel skin wearing guy could have been pretty cool to kick it with...Thing 3 also needed clarification on how if He knows who the Son is, how is the Father the only one who knows Him...after making sure it was Son not Sun
CH - 12 thing 4 wanted to know how many brothers came to see Jesus, how many brothers he had, and if he had sisters....actually happy to find out Jesus had a large family too...Jesus prophecy about Jonah led to a favorite family discussion...was Jonah swallowed by a whale or a fish....the word dag/fish appears about 20 times in OT always is translated fish...which led to a conversation about noodling...only in the south my friends would 6&8 year old boys know about such a "sport"...I think a man could be swallowed by a catfish...in which my reply would be no more lakes for me!
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