Our church has the tradition of calling the children forward during the advent season. Troy chooses one of them to light the candles and he talks about different parts of the Christmas story. It's interactive and, usually, someone says something ridiculous. Today Troy asked them what they wanted to be when they grew up. Someone wanted to be a police man. One of the girls in my play wanted to be a fashion model. Garrett looked me squarely in the eye and whispered, "I want to be Jesus." Then he shot his little arm up in the air.
Troy: Garrett, what do you want to be?
Me: (whispering quickly) Maybe...something else.
Garrett: (loudly) Um. I want to be a fire fighter and a doctor and an airplane guy!
When I sat down, one man leaned forward and suggested that we start dumping money into the college fund.
I can hear him now, "Sorry I'm late, Captain. After I landed from my flight home from La Guardia I had to perform an emergency appendectomy."
Did you explain to the little guy why he needed career aspirations other than the Son of God?
ReplyDeleteIt's totally doable.... he'll be a pilot of a fire/medic rescue helicopter.
ReplyDeleteso cute! I love the quirky things kids say.
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