Theology

I think I must have gotten off track somewhere along the way in Little Boy's religious education here. We've started with some basic concepts about God, mostly in terms of His creative role. God made Little Boy. God made the trees and animals. Little Boy will ask why rabbits hop or why the trees are green. Sometimes I start with some practical ideas, (that's how they walk or because that helps them absorb the sunshine), but when the Why? keeps coming, I often deffer to the ultimate authority - because God made them that way. Not trying to be glib, just trying to make room in Little Boy's world for God in a way that he can understand right now. Pretty much any time he asks why something is the way it is, and I don't know the answer, he now says, "Because God made it that way." But I seem to have made some sort of critical error...

Yesterday Little Boy brought his big stuffed monkey when he came in to wake me up. He held the monkey over me with its arms above its head and told me, "This is God."

Oh, dear.