Pastor Bo WagnerMy oldest daughter, now 18 years old, has always been one of the most amazing people I know. She currently works 28 hours a week, goes to college full time and serves the Lord a great many hours a week as well. She honestly outworks and out-hustles many adults I know. But it is usually her precocious brain that provides me the most smiles during the course of the day.
My perpetually straight-A daughter, high school salutatorian, started showing her brilliance very young. She was talking in full sentences at 14 months old and using words like “contemplating,” properly and in context, as a toddler. But it was her “theological prowess” at age 3 that put us in stitches and to this day makes me smile.
I suppose most everyone in the Bible Belt, and even in many regions beyond, is familiar with the “hand church” game that adults play with tiny children: “This is the church, this is the steeple, open the doors, and there are the people!”
A mental picture is now forming in your mind of a person with their six back fingers intertwined and folded in, both index fingers pointing skyward as a steeple, and both thumbs placed together up front as the doors. The thumbs are then moved, revealing the six fingertips inside wiggling against each other, the “people” of the church.
When Karis was 3, her nana showed her that, and she was enthralled. But when her nana “opened the doors” to show the wiggling people banging up against each other, her little face wrinkled up and she said, “Why are they fighting?”