Great! A bit less funny–but last week, my 6 year old, Leah, said of my grandma, who went to be with Jesus at 95 a week ago: I miss Great Grandma. She comforts me.
R: I miss her, too. Do you want to pray for her?
L: Dear God, please help Grandma to have a good time in Heaven, even though she’s not here with us.
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I’m sure God laughs at kids when they try to comprehend who He is and finds it cute as we do.
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Sometimes I wonder if he doesn’t laugh at we adults for our own bunglely attempts.
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That’s probably the better interpretation of why Jesus said we had to be like little children…
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Because children have abounding vitality, because they are in spirit fierce and free, therefore they want things repeated and unchanged. They always say, “Do it again”; and the grown-up person does it again until he is nearly dead. For grown-up people are not strong enough to exult in monotony. But perhaps God is strong enough to exult in monotony. It is possible that God says every morning, “Do it again” to the sun; and every evening, “Do it again” to the moon. It may not be automatic necessity that makes all daisies alike; it may be that God makes every daisy separately, but has never got tired of making them. It may be that He has the eternal appetite of infancy; for we have sinned and grown old, and our Father is younger than we.
G. K. Chesterton, Orthodoxy
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Now it’s a stretch, but you could infer some science in this (it would have to be deliberate 
) – I saw this last night and thought it was a hoot – I laughed out loud harder than I had for a while 
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Darn, the link seems bad. Oh well. Swing and a miss.
A comic that combines elements of the favorite animal post with the question of “can God change the past.” A little more involved than your typical comic, more of an animated gif, so you have to click the link to read.
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Given all the linguistic and interpretation stuff lately:
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Very timely indeed and not only for all the linguistics talk lately. At my age it is very useful to know death can be defeated by a stab in the face. must remain vigilant
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Is it just me or does the new arrival look a little peeved? Perhaps because he had to be told in person rather than getting a convenient text he could look at any time.
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Perhaps he’s peeved. But I think his expression may also reveal his sudden worry that Heaven might not have wifi.
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Yeah, those crossed arms … I think he’d rather be at a Starbucks.
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Two of my favorires, perhaps already posted.
One day a group of Darwinian scientists got together and decided that man had come a long way and no longer needed God. So they picked one Darwinian to go and tell Him that they were done with Him.
The Darwinian walked up to God and said, “God, we’ve decided that we no longer need you. We’re to the point that we can clone people and do many miraculous things, so why don’t you just go on and get lost.”
God listened very patiently and kindly to the man. After the Darwinian was done talking, God said, “Very well, how about this? Let’s say we have a man-making contest.” To which the Darwinian happily agreed.
God added, “Now, we’re going to do this just like I did back in the old days with Adam.”
The Darwinian said, “Sure, no problem” and bent down and grabbed himself a handful of dirt.
God looked at him and said, “No, no, no. You go get your own dirt!!!”
Heaven’s Surprise
I was shocked, confused, bewildered as I entered Heaven’s door,
Not by the beauty of it all, nor the lights or its decor.
But it was the folks in Heaven who made me sputter and gasp
The thieves, the liars, the sinners, the alcoholics and the trash.
There stood the kid from seventh grade who swiped my lunch money twice.
Next to him was my old neighbor who never said anything nice.
Herb, who I always thought was rotting away in hell,
Was sitting pretty on cloud nine, looking incredibly well.
I nudged Jesus, ‘What’s the deal? I would love to hear your take.
How’d all these sinners get up here? God must’ve made a mistake.
And why’s everyone so quiet, so somber give me a clue.’
‘Child,’ He said, ‘they’re all in shock. They never thought they’d be eeing you!’
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[Q] - Why did God create man before woman?
[A] - He didn’t want any advice!
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If you are a charismatic and you can’t appreciate the picture then you haven’t received the gift of humor yet.
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The Heaven’s Surprise reminds me of a joke that was told at my Sunday School class long ago.
Two angels are looking in the book of life and not only see that the population is double the size; but they are all sinners! One angel looks at the other and says, “How are all these sinners getting into Heaven?” They both look at the gate and see Jesus helping sinners climb over the gate and getting into Heaven.
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