It's heartbreaking at times.
I'm in awe at others.
He's
Unfathomably broad.
Abysmally sagacious.
Torrentially serene.
And he's starting to ask about God.
It's only normal.
We don't go to church.
America2K is full of all sorts of mixed information about God, and that can be confusing to little kids.
And big ones.
Instead of allowing him to ask all the questions, I decided to ask Jacob about God.
This was a few months ago. Well before Christmas. Sometime after Halloween.
I wanted to catch him before he heard the story of the Baby Jesus. I wanted to start at the beginning. BC stuff. And before anyone else got to him.
I wanted to know what he thought. What's been stewing in his little head. Where he was coming from, what level he was working at. Maybe even a little bit of what we're born with. Maybe some of that is left over in that head of his.
"Jacob, what is God?"
He held my hands and sat me down. We faced each other, knee to knee, nose to nose. Almost. In theory. He opened up his hands and pressed them together fingertips to opposite wrist, slid them so his fingers were able to curl up and interlock in a ball, held it there in front of his heart, elbows pointed straight out. A tiny yin yang, hovering a foot in front of me.
He looked forward and said, "God creates the Earth, and the Earth creates God. It's all about energies working together."
26 degrees {comments}:
"it's all the energies working together"....isn't that profound for someone his age. I love it!
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SueAnn
According to Jacob's Logic...
God created everything in the beginning, and then the Earth creates an energy that sustains God, and then God creates more stuff on Earth, which in turn sustains us, and God, and we are part of all that. Us. You and me. We are part of what keeps God, or the Life Force, or whatever you call it but here we are calling it God, going.
So what we do here, for others and for ourselves and for God and for the Earth, is helping God keep it all going.
According to a three year old child.
Let that sink in for four or five months. I'm still having a hard time processing it all.
Living with a Baby Philosopher is contributing to my insomnia.
Jacob, that is absolutely beautiful. I say he should start his own religion and begin teaching that.
I just asked JT the same question. His response? "God is mean. God is dammit because Dads says God dammit and Kody gets in trouble."
I've got some work to do.....
That is deep and coming from a 3 year old. My 3 year old likes to say prayers but I really don''t think he could answer the question "what is God." I should ask him, I am a little afraid of his answer though.
Baby Socrates!!!! I'm sure there is a spot for him at Carnegie Mellon! What a wonderful little guy!
Wow. I hope you're writing all this down. Oh yeah, you are. He is one deep little boy!!
wow! how amazing is that! What do you feed this child? When I have babies can they come learn from him?
Brilliant!
been thinking about religion a lot lately. been thinking about my Catholicism. i love this post. more than i can say.
find a way to make him hang onto that, Lora... i'm scared that it's something we've all lost.
Sweet and charming. Good job.
Wow I love it! Pretty special boy you got there! Good Job Mom.
Can i steal your son please?
Just for a little while.
He might be able to teach me some things.
*speechless*
I've yet to speak with my wife about the fact that I think I'm more agnostic than anything else at this point. We don't go to church, but she's a believer. She's starting to have Tyler say "Thank you, God, for our food," before meals, while I just sit there, waiting to eat.
I don't know what kind of shit will hit the fan when (if) I ever mention it to my parents (devout) or father-in-law (devout). Sigh.
Wow, that is all I can really say, WOW!
I've read and re-read this, I love it.
Wow, that's amazing! What a smart one...good job, Mom!
Love this. It is all about the energies working together. Maybe the next generation will really understand.
Brilliant boy you've got there...
Criminutley-- there's a very old soul inside that little dude! He is the Dalai Lama, I'm telling you!
You have one awesome little boy.
Some adorable little boy is a smarty boots. I'm pretty sure his name is Jacob.
WOW! No words.
I scrap the Hamster I think I have another prophet.
Not to say that I'm not impressed at your boy's grasp of the infinite (because I definitely am), but I've got this notion that the closer people are to the beginning and to the end, springing forth from or dissolving into the perpetual light, the more they know about God. It's in the middle that we get all screwed up.
You gave birth to Buddha. nice job.
What an old soul he is...... I loved what he said. NICE!
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