Childlike Faith

" God loves us and He wants us to care about people and help people. And He loves us even if we make mistakes, even big ones," Kristen told me today on the way to bible study today. She continued to inform me that "God lives in heaven. With Jesus. And MY Great- Grandpa. Soon we'll be in heaven too."



Kristen's Great-Grandpa died last week and she traveled with her family to St. Louis to attend his funeral.
















The trip there was pretty rough,with lots of crying from Audrey and lots of whining from Kristen. But it was nice to be able to show our respect and love for Grandpa Schwane. And luckily the girls slept most of the time on the return trip back to KC.








Kristen really enjoyed meeting Cousin Tim and staying at his house. We were very thankful for his hospitality. Kristen understood that he is Daddy’s cousin, like Charis is her cousin. Sarah Poertner was there, too, and Kristen talked about how Daddy has two cousins.




Actually there are a ton more, but we’ll save those intros for a later time.









Kristen and Audrey both loved seeing their Mimi and Papa.















And their aunts and uncles.









I asked Kristen what else she knew about God, and she said, " Jesus loves us anyways. Even if we make big mistakes, even if we make little mistakes. If we say we are sorry, He forgives us and He loves us even when we make mistakes. And He wants us to share and be nice to good people and bad people."



I asked her what she meant by the 'bad' people and she said, "like Edgar" (from the Aristocats... he stole Madame's cats) She continued by saying, " If Edgar says sorry, Jesus will forgive him and teach him to be nice and care about people and to not take cats anymore."




I think my little three old summarized the gospel pretty well. Accept Jesus and his love and grace. And in response, love and be graceful to others.