Lately, Isaac has been questioning everything. Why, Mama? Why, Dada? Yes, he’s in the stage of “why” everything. I really don’t like this stage. I know it’s an important one and I don’t want to quench their curiosity. But, come on! This is one stage that seams to last forever. Well, intellectually I know that it doesn’t last forever because Maacah doesn’t ask why all the time now. But it has taken her about 4 years to stop. 2 more years. For him. Yeah.
But there is something that he is saying that is really cute and new. If I’m doing something or I tell him to do something (or not do something, as the case may be), he will ask, “God said?”. This makes me chuckle. The things that go through little people’s minds’. I was cutting the pizza into slices and he asks me, “Knife Mama. Why? God said?”. No, Isaac. This is how Mama cuts the pizza. I’m tying his shoes and he asks, “Why Mama? God said?”. No Isaac, Mama said. I tell him to put his undies on before he puts his pants on and he asks, “Why Mama? God said?”. No sweetie, that is just how we get dressed. I sit down to read my Bible and he asks, “Why Mama? God said?”. Yes Isaac. God says to read His word and to learn what He says to us. I say that we aren’t going to do something because Daddy doesn’t like it. He asks, “Why Mama? God said?”. Yes, Isaac. God says we need to obey our Fathers and Mamas need to obey their husbands.
They learn early, don’t they? Their minds are sponges when they are young and it is so important to be careful what we help fill them with. Do we want them to be filled with violence from those horrid video games or filled with wholesome thoughts? Do we want them to think of things of this world and what this world can give them, or do we want them to think of the things of God and things that we can do for Him? Do we want to model the selfishness that is so prevalent in our society or do we want to model the selflessness of Christ?
I could do without the “why” stage. But I like the idea of the “God said” stage. It’s such an innocent and child~like question. “And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, and said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven. And whoso shall receive one such little child in my name receiveth me. But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.” Matthew 18: 2-6