Tuesday, October 13, 2009

The Little Reprobate

Tim and Aileen are out. Dad and I sit at the table with the children. Time to read the Bible and pray.

Michaela: I don't want to read the Bible tonight. It's boring.

Mimi: Oh, but it's important to read it every night, just like Daddy does. Of course we are going to read it.

Michaela: No, it's boring.

Michaela again: And I don't want to pray. Usually I pray but tonight I don't want to.

Beba: OK guys...

Michaela: I have to go poo poo...Right now...And off she goes.

Dad begins to read the Bible. Slam goes the bathroom door!

And mostly, as far as I can tell, she is not abnormally rebellious...What a job God does when he takes these little unruly hearts and subdues them...But also, given her wee age and generally submissive heart, how absurdly humorous....