AND THEY'RE NOT EVEN RELATED TO ME
Two stories. Both true. Both about three-year old boys. Both about the depth of the mind and soul. Neither has much to do with the picture, but I love the picture and how else could I work it in?
The first boy is on a pre-school field trip to the doctor's office. I can see our general practitioner allowing a visit like that. He's well staffed and he worked his way through Johns Hopkins Med School by being a clown. So one of the nurses in this brief tale allowed the three-year old to listen in her stethoscope. When she placed it on his heart, he said,"Is that God knocking on my heart?"
"Sure is," I hope she said, but now I'm just embellishing the true story. I wasn't told her response.
The second story comes from Charles Stanley's book The Glorious Journey, page 392. How's that for referencing Dr. Bach? Elisabeth Elliot, a former missionary who is the mother of the author of At The End of a Spear, was watching 6 of her grandchildren. One, a three-year old had acted up, as we used to say, but now I'm hearing more say acted out, and required a scolding. His response to getting in trouble, "Well, we're all sinners, you know."
Classic. Am I too old to use that line? I think so, but I love those two stories and the picture, so that's how they go together On The QT.
Two stories. Both true. Both about three-year old boys. Both about the depth of the mind and soul. Neither has much to do with the picture, but I love the picture and how else could I work it in?
The first boy is on a pre-school field trip to the doctor's office. I can see our general practitioner allowing a visit like that. He's well staffed and he worked his way through Johns Hopkins Med School by being a clown. So one of the nurses in this brief tale allowed the three-year old to listen in her stethoscope. When she placed it on his heart, he said,"Is that God knocking on my heart?"
"Sure is," I hope she said, but now I'm just embellishing the true story. I wasn't told her response.
The second story comes from Charles Stanley's book The Glorious Journey, page 392. How's that for referencing Dr. Bach? Elisabeth Elliot, a former missionary who is the mother of the author of At The End of a Spear, was watching 6 of her grandchildren. One, a three-year old had acted up, as we used to say, but now I'm hearing more say acted out, and required a scolding. His response to getting in trouble, "Well, we're all sinners, you know."
Classic. Am I too old to use that line? I think so, but I love those two stories and the picture, so that's how they go together On The QT.
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