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God has a special place

In the annals of “things I hope I don’t do as a parent”:

The other day, a six-year-old asked Karissa where the baby was going to come out. Reasonable question, and she got about two words into a reasonable answer before the kid’s mother jumped in to shuffle him off in another direction, with “God has a special place for that.”

Hmm. Kid, file that one away for future reference: God is a crutch grownups use when they’re trying to avoid being honest with you.

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2 Responses to “God has a special place”

  1. jonny Says:

    November 28th, 2006 at 1:12 am

    Huh? You mean Mom and Dad weren’t being honest? Man, I knew they used that “God has a special place…” answer too often for it to be entirely legit…

  2. eric Says:

    November 28th, 2006 at 2:47 am

    it begs the question (and i know if i were a 5 year old i would ask this): what place?

    where is this place and what is it like?

    back to you, karissa.