Jayda is an extrememely inquisitive little girl. She wants to know who did it… why… when… how… what now… you know… all the good stuff. Bedtime routine this past week {first week of school} went MUCH better than I expected. She and I would go to her room and I would ‘sing’ to her… yeah… a voice only a loving child would love. ;-). The other night though, she switched it up on me. She requested a story. Off she went to select a book, The Alphabet Thief Who Stole the Vowels {Claudia Villarreal}, a cute story about a thief. And yeah, she had a question… A big one…
J: “Do we have thieves in this world?”
Me: “Yes, baby we do.”
J: “AHH, WHY?”
Me: “Well, we have a lot of people in this world who make bad choices and sometimes the choices hurt others. But, don’t worry, Jesus protects us.” {Yes… I went there. I brought up Jesus… trust… He will watch over us… don’t worry}
Simple right?!? Well…
J: “WHAT!?! You mean Jesus KNOWS about this? Why does He allow them? And do they really steal VOWELS?”
{What to do now… what to say… God give me the words…because this is DEEP. }
Me: “Jesus allows them to be around because He wants to see how we can help them. He wants to see if we will trust Him -to help us- help them and protect us at the same time. That is why we pray. He wants to see how much we believe in Him.
J: “Oh ok.”
{SIGH of relief}
So, yes… it was that simple.
Just like that… she trusted Him, she trusted me… I learned a lesson about faith that night. Trust.
Jesus is pretty cool.
Trust Him.
Dancing with Cinderella 
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