I was upstairs just now in the new play room we are creating for the kid*s* (plural, kind of weird). I was sanding the plaster Ivan repaired and painting a big spot on the green wall. I turn around to see Audrey standing behind a little stool with her hands on either side of the top of it and she is clearly pretending that it is a podium and that the green wall is her audience. And out of her mouth comes this (no joke), “Jesus welcomes…” I turn around, smiling and quite surprised and, of course, she stops.

What kind of sermon would have proceeded if I hadn’t turned around, I wonder?

I ask her later if she was “preaching” and she just looks at me kind of funny. And then she starts off in her own Audrey sort of language telling me all sorts of things about Jesus. Jesus fixes her owies. Jesus keeps her safe. Jesus helps Audrey and Mommy. Amazing. Where did she learn all of this? ‘Cuz I sure don’t remember teaching her all of this.

I wonder who this little girl named Audrey Anne is going to become someday, I really do wonder.

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