Kids just say it as it is
Friday, July 1st, 2011Stacy over at Accepting Abundance has a great post – as usual – looking at a young girls reaction to taking Holy Communion:
When my daughter asked me if the host tasted like cardboard, I was stumped. Is it wrong to discuss how the Body and Blood taste, especially with unflattering words? My careful answer was that she should not think about herself during Holy Communion but about what the host is – Jesus. So she later wrote in her school journal that Mom said, “If you’re thinking about yourself the host will taste like cardboard (kardbard), if you’re thinking of God it will taste good.” I wondered what to say to that? Something about denying what our senses naturally tell us seems too much like the modern age materialism of non-believers.
Love it.
During the first Holy Communion of my son the other week, we were careful to instruct him not to pull a face when taking the blood. He did good, but some other parents had obviously forgotten this aspect!
It all reminds me of when my son was younger and would just say things as he saw them, with no regard to anything, or anybody else.
When he was about five-years-old, I was a little on the porky side and decided that I wouldn’t have my traditional 5 dishes from the takeaway curry house, but moderate myself somewhat.
So, into the takeaway I go with my little one in tow. As it was Friday evening, the place was packed out. When it finally came time to order, I limited myself to just two dishes. The proprietor – knowing my eating habits rather well – naturally enquired if I’d like more dishes, and I proudly responded that I was currently dieting.
At that moment a little voice boomed from the corner, “Well it’s not going very well is it Daddy”, to which the whole place erupted in laughter.
Suffice it to say an early bedtime was in order.
