God's Not in My Heart?

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 at 11:37pm

This morning, Jayden informed me that God's not in his heart (or did he say tummy? Vaelyn says tummy) anymore. He then proceeded to tell me that there was more than one god/God and some were strong, etc. He continued saying that his teacher said this. I, of course, am quite sure throughout this all that he has gotten something confused and that his teacher at church (or even daycare) did not say there was more than one god/God. I thought at first that his teacher must have described God with several adjectives, and Jayden just didn't realize that they all went with the same entity. After further questioning, it comes down to this: we had a visiting preacher for a missions conference recently. He was a very learned man who could quote Hebrew, and he talked about some Hebrew words and ideas and some ancient gods the night that I attended. Phillip and the kids attended another service without me while I was working on my assignment for my grad classes, but there was no class for Jayden that night, so he had to go into the adult service. Anyway, I guess he got more out of it than you would think!

I think we now have him back on track with one God in his heart/tummy, but it was quite disconcerting to try to repair the damage. I can't imagine how difficult it would be to repair damage from a lengthy time with the wrong person or theology that was misunderstood, or just hanging around with the wrong friends for an extended time! Wow! Rearing children is so darn complicated! (It's also a lot of fun!) :)