Yesterday morning, Sawyer donned her princess dress and butterfly wings and joined me in the kitchen. She wanted to act out the Christmas story; she would be the angel and I would be a shepherd who would be afraid when I saw her. I easily obliged. She loves to pretend and act things out and I know the Christmas story is one of her favorites.
While she left the room, I sat down to feed Wryder and she soon returned. I did my part and proclaimed, “Aaagh! I’m afraid, I’m afraid! Who are you?”
She replied, “Do not be afraid! I’m an angel. A Savior has been born in Bethlehem. You should go and see Him.”
Knowing that she knew the story of Christ’s birth, I did my part to foster the conversation to lead us into the second act and allow her to have more dialog from the story…so I asked, “How will I know where to go?”…thinking she would reply something about following a star.
Nope.
She replied, in her best Dora-esque set of directions, “First you’ll go past crocodile lake.”
I about fell out of my chair! She finished her instructions and I thought, this can still be salvaged! Thinking she’d mention something about swaddling clothes or a manager, I asked, “How will I know it’s baby Jesus?” To which she replied…
“You’ll have to look closely.”
How funny is she!? You may disagree but I just have to believe that the Lord was busting a gut right along with me; her innocence was overwhelmingly adorable! I grabbed pen and paper and immediately wrote down our little exchange. These are the little things I don’t want to forget…these are the things that bless my heart.