When my daughter was about four years old, she still had a hard time
grasping the concept of marriage. But anyway, I got out our wedding album,
thinking visual images would help, and explained the entire service to her.
Once finished, I asked if she had any questions, and she replied,
"Oh. I see. Is that when Mommy came to work for us?"

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A mother took her three-year-old daughter to church for the first time.
The church lights were lowered, and then the choir came down the aisle,
carrying lighted candles. All was quiet until the little one started to
sing in a loud voice, "Happy Birthday to you, happy birthday to you......"

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After listening restlessly to a long and tedious sermon, a 6-year old
boy asked his father what the preacher did the rest of the week.
"Oh,he's a very busy man," the father replied.
"He takes care of church business, visits the sick, ministers to the poor....
And then he has to have time to rest up.
Talking in public isn't an easy job, you know.
"The boy thought about that, then said,
"Well, listening ain't easy, either.
"

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The Most Caring Child Author and lecturer Leo Buscaglia
once talked about a contest he was asked to judge.
The purpose of the contest was to find the most caring child.
The winner was a four year old child whose next door neighbor
was an elderly gentleman who had recently lost his wife.
Upon seeing the man cry, the little boy went into the old gentleman's yard,
climbed onto his lap, and just sat there.
When his mother asked him what he had said to the neighbor,
the little boy said, "Nothing, I just helped him cry."

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I had been teaching my three-year-old daughter, Caitlin, the Lord's Prayer.
For several evenings at bedtime she repeated it after me.
One night she said she was ready to solo.
I listened with pride as she carefully enunciated each word,
right up to the end of the prayer.
"Lead us not into temptation," she prayed,
"but deliver us some e-mail.
Amen."

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A mother was watching her four-year-old child
playing outside in a small plastic pool half filled with water.
He was happily walking back and forth across the pool, making big splashes.
Suddenly, he stopped, stepped out of the pool,
and began to scoop water out of the pool with a pail.
"Why are you pouring the water out, Johnny?" the mother asked.
"'Cause my teacher said Jesus walked on water,
and this water won't work." The boy replied.

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FMC member Pastor Stan of Garden Baptist Church
went to an informal church gathering, wearing shorts and a T-shirt.
A little girl from a newly religious family;
who had seen him only in his Sunday morning suits loudly proclaimed:
"Hey, preacher, you sure look different with clothes on!"

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After church one Sunday morning, a mother commented:
"The choir was awful this morning."
The father commented: "The sermon was too long."
Their seven year old daughter added:
"You've got to admit it was a pretty good show for a dime."

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A four year old was at the pediatrician for a check up.
As the doctor looked down her ears with an otoscope, he asked,
"Do you think I'll find Big Bird in here?"
The little girl stayed silent.
Next, the doctor took a tongue depressor and looked down her throat.
He asked, "Do you think I'll find the Cookie Monster down there?"
Again, the little girl was silent.
Then the doctor put a stethoscope to her chest.
As he listened to her heart beat, he asked,
"Do you think I'll hear Barney in there?"
"oh, no!" the little girl replied. "Jesus is in my heart.
Barney's on my underpants."

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Grandpa and granddaughter were sitting talking when she asked, "Did God make you, Grandpa?"
"Yes, God made me," the grandfather answered.
A few minutes later, the little girl asked him, "Did God make me too?"
"Yes, He did," the older man answered.
For a few minutes, the little girl seemed to be studying her grandpa,
as well as her own reflection in the mirror,
while her grandfather wondered what was running through her mind.
At last she spoke up.

"You know, Grandpa," she said,
"God's doing a lot better job lately."