So apparently during Primary today, the music leader had the children sing all the verses of "I am a Child of God." The kids were rusty on the last verse, so as she was teaching them the words, she asked the children:
"So what does "endure" mean in the part where we sing "Celestial Glory shall be mine, if I can but endure?"
Clark raised his hand and said "Does it mean that all we have to do to be able to go to heaven is stay in our houses all day long?"
It took them a second to figure out what he meant, and then when everyone realized what he was saying, a discussion took place about the difference between "endure" and "indoor."
Clark's teacher leaned over to him and said "I'm with you, I wish it were that easy."
I am sure Clark was thinking, "Hey, I am down with this if I can stay indoors all day and play wii and still make it to the Celestial kingdom." I was just happy that he wasn't cracking some joke about the word "but" in the song.
This story was particularly funny to me because this morning, the boys were asking why we had to go to church and why we couldn't just stay home and watch movies and play video games all day. I said "because watching movies and playing video games doesn't make you a good person, going to church helps you become a good person." Surprisingly, I didn't get any argument with that response and they happily got in the car to go to church.
Andrew has lately been obsessed with the war in heaven. He seems shocked that Jesus and Satan are brothers and that their father is Heavenly Father who is also our Father. He asks me almost daily, "If Heavenly Father is Jesus and Satan's dad, then why did Satan become bad?" I keep telling him that Jesus and Satan both had to make choices and Jesus made good choices, but Satan decided to make a lot of bad choices. He then always responds with "well then, I am only going to make good choices because I don't want to be like Satan." We are still working on making the connection between all this very deep spiritual stuff and the daily trials of getting along with his brother and sister, but we are just taking things one day at a time!
"So what does "endure" mean in the part where we sing "Celestial Glory shall be mine, if I can but endure?"
Clark raised his hand and said "Does it mean that all we have to do to be able to go to heaven is stay in our houses all day long?"
It took them a second to figure out what he meant, and then when everyone realized what he was saying, a discussion took place about the difference between "endure" and "indoor."
Clark's teacher leaned over to him and said "I'm with you, I wish it were that easy."
I am sure Clark was thinking, "Hey, I am down with this if I can stay indoors all day and play wii and still make it to the Celestial kingdom." I was just happy that he wasn't cracking some joke about the word "but" in the song.
This story was particularly funny to me because this morning, the boys were asking why we had to go to church and why we couldn't just stay home and watch movies and play video games all day. I said "because watching movies and playing video games doesn't make you a good person, going to church helps you become a good person." Surprisingly, I didn't get any argument with that response and they happily got in the car to go to church.
Andrew has lately been obsessed with the war in heaven. He seems shocked that Jesus and Satan are brothers and that their father is Heavenly Father who is also our Father. He asks me almost daily, "If Heavenly Father is Jesus and Satan's dad, then why did Satan become bad?" I keep telling him that Jesus and Satan both had to make choices and Jesus made good choices, but Satan decided to make a lot of bad choices. He then always responds with "well then, I am only going to make good choices because I don't want to be like Satan." We are still working on making the connection between all this very deep spiritual stuff and the daily trials of getting along with his brother and sister, but we are just taking things one day at a time!
