here was our dinner conversation last night:

sawyer: mommy, does everybody die?
me: yes, sawyer, we're all going to die some day.
kenny: sawyer, you may never die.
me: this is true. jesus might come back before you die. won't that be cool?
sawyer: what?
rowan: what?
we then chat about jesus coming as a baby, then dying on the cross, and now alive in heaven...so perhaps when he comes again we'll all still be alive.
rowan: (interupting me) how come when the earth spins around and around the food doesn't fall off our plates?
i think any mention of heaven, and his mind goes off into planets and the sun. smart kid. he's going to be too smart for me in a few months!

these are fairly typical conversations that we have daily. they're only 3 and 5 year old boys and are already asking questions that are hard for me to answer! they've been doing so for a while now. i hope they always ask the tough questions. doubting, wondering, questioning...these are some tools God has given us to uncover truths. perhaps we'll never get to the deepest mysteries of Him, but how much fun we can have along the way by digging deep into things with our minds!