Inquiring Minds

"What do missionaries do?" I quizzed Jory as we drove to school.

"Tell people about Jesus," he answered without missing a beat.

"Where does your missionary live?"

"Africa."

Score on that one! I had forgotten for a while to teach him where the missionaries we had a picture of, courtesy of Miss Sarah, lived and look he was rocking the new knowledge. "The Bible is made up of two parts. What are they called?"

"The Old Testament and the New Testament. The New Testament has 27 books."

Look at my baby answering questions before I even ask them. "What are the names of the books?"

"Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, First Corinthians, Second Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, Philippians, Colossians, First and Second Thessalonians, First and Second Timothy, Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, First- -"

"James. Philemon, Hebrews, James."

"Titus, Philemon, Hebrews, James, First and Second Peter, First, Second, and Third John, Jude, Revelation," my brown eyed boy finished with a smile.

"John 3:14. Just?"

"Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the desert, so the Son of Man must be lifted up,"

"John 3:15. That?"

"That everyone who believes may have eternal life."

"John 3:16. For God?"

"For God so loved the world that He gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in Him shall not perish but have eternal life. "

"Joshua 1:9. Have?"

"Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous...for the LORD your God will be with you."

"Joshua 24:24. And?"

"And the people said to Joshua, “We will serve the LORD our God and obey him.”

He says Joshua so beautifully. His second younger brother's middle name is totally going to be Joshua and we'll call him Joss. His eloquence just gave his future brother a name and a middle name.

"Romans 3:23. For all?" (In Sparks, you can only get two helps with a verse.)

"For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God."

"Ephesians 6:1. Children?"

"Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right."

I am so madly in love with this little boy. He's so, so brilliant! He's going to rock AWANA this Friday and finish his very first Sparks book. YIIPPEEE!!!! Deut 6:7 says, "Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie down and when you get up." I am so blessed to be able to teach my son God's commandments, His Word.

Amazing what an open heart, mind, and repetition can do. Though strangely, I'm not sure how many times I have said, "Pick up your clothes and put them in the dirty clothes hamper before you leave the bathroom." "When you take off your pjs, put them on the bed." "When I say, 'Pick up the toys,' I mean from all over the house, not just the room you're in." I've been saying these things for years, yet they have to constantly be repeated. Hmm, wonder how that works? You know- - not going to dwell on it now. I'll concentrate on the good.

My son ROCKS!!!! I am truly, madly, deeply in love with the second greatest boy ever born on Christmas!