This afternoon, Miss Z turned to me and said “Mommy, how does God make people come alive?”. I said “what do you mean make people come alive?”. She said (with great depth to her words): “Just how does He make people come aliiiive?”
“Well”, I said, “God created the Universe, and then he created this planet Earth in which we live, then he created the oceans and the land and the trees and then he created little fishes, and then…” “NO Mommy”, she interjected, “that’s not what I mean. I’m not talking about fishes, I mean people”. So I continued “you didn’t let me finish. God made the fishes and then they evolved into lizards, and frogs, and then into monkeys, and then into humans…” (my unsuccessful attempt at explaining in the shortest possible way, the theory of evolution to a 6 year old with an attention span of 10 seconds)…
“Mommy, you just don’t get it. When I draw someone, how does God make them come alive? How does he make people come alive??” By this time, I was at a loss, so I changed tact. “Well, I’ll give you an example, Mommy and Daddy get together and create a seed, then the Mommy gets pregnant and then a baby is born…”; “No Mommy, I’m not talking about that, you don’t understand! I just want to know how the person actually becomes aliiiiive??”
I repeated myself (pretty much at the end of my wits by this time) “Mommy and Daddy get together and make a seed that goes into Mommy’s tummy. The seed grows and becomes a baby. When the baby is born, it cries a little bit and starts breathing. And that’s when it comes aliiiiive!” (with great depth just like she put it 😉
“Ah, ok, Mommy, I get it now.”
“Oh, really, but that’s what I said the previous time!!”
“No, Mommy, this time, you gave me proper information!”
Speechless after that 😉
PS: Same weekend, next morning, Miss Z was obsessed with the idea of making a car made of cardboard. I told her she needed to ask Daddy because he was the car expert.
As soon as Daddy came downstairs:
Miss Z: Daddy, can we make a car made of cardboard?
Daddy: Can’t you just draw a car?
Miss Z: No Daddy, because that will be in 2D. It needs to be in 3D otherwise I won’t be able to get into it.
You just can’t make this stuff up! Priceless.