Sunrise, Sunset

Today, I watched Fiddler on the Roof with my little one for the first time. She didn't want it to be over. "Please, play it again, " she said. (We didn't.) As Teyve observed, "Wasn't it yesterday when they were small?"

There are so many interesting topics that come up during the course of the film. We talked about Jewish persecution, getting married, poverty and riches, the Jews rejection of Jesus Christ, and materialism. Not in that order and not in those exact words. Sometimes you forget that many things are "new" to our children. The idea that the Jewish nation as a whole has not accept Jesus as the Messiah was met with wide eyes. The fact the the Jews of "Fiddler" were run out of town simply because they were Jews lent itself to an interesting conversation. I asked, "What if someone passed a law that Christians weren't allow to live in our town?" I could see the  little "wheels" turning for a while. "Maybe we could just say that we weren't Christian, and they would leave us alone, " she said. "No, sweetheart, we cannot deny the Lord like that. We are not ashamed of him," I replied. "The home and things we have are just 'things'. We can leave them all behind, and trust Jesus to take care of us and He would."  "That's true," she replied. My little one is a problem solver, but she hadn't thought of everything.

It is such a joy to just sit and talk sometimes. Carefully answering little and big questions...the wonderings of a little child. I know the questions will get harder with age. The answers will need to take root in her own heart. Searching them out on her own from the Scripture, and observing the realities played out right in front of our eyes. God give us wisdom. We must make sure our ideas are not truly our own but His ideas. "Thinking God's thoughts after him."

On a lighter note, I look forward to introducing my little one to many new things. Many of my personal favorites like Jane Austen, Amy Carmichael, Beethoven, or Bach. Good things that will cultivate a good and tender heart. Enjoyable things to aid the imagination. Beautiful things to help her see the God of beauty and splendor.

"Rid me, and deliver me from the hand of strange children, whose mouth speaketh vanity, and their right hand is the right hand of falsehood: that our sons may be as plants grown up in their youth; that our daughters may be as corner stones, polished after the similitude of a palace."    
Psalm 144:11-12