{"id":387,"date":"2009-03-14T04:00:41","date_gmt":"2009-03-14T11:00:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=387"},"modified":"2009-03-14T04:00:41","modified_gmt":"2009-03-14T11:00:41","slug":"jesus-blesses-the-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/?p=387","title":{"rendered":"Jesus blesses the children"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Last night we were reading from Bridget’s Book of Mormon reader. We got to a chapter titled “Jesus blesses the children.” I asked Bridget if she’d like to read about how Jesus blesses us. She glanced down at the page, and immediately exclaimed, “How come Jesus shows up there? He doesn’t ever show up here to bless us.”<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

I chuckled a little bit and tried to explain. I told her that Jesus used to walk on the earth, and that he lived here before he lived in heaven. And that he’d come to earth again, but that it would probably be a long time. Her only response, “Why?”<\/em><\/p>\n

I tried to explain that Jesus has ‘helpers’ here on earth to bless us with the priesthood when he can’t be here himself. Again she asked, “Why?”<\/em><\/p>\n

Man, I love the “WHY” stage.<\/p>\n

At any rate, I tried to simplify things the best I could so she would understand. Who knows if she actually does.<\/p>\n

I thought that her initial comment was cute and innocent though. Well, sweetheart, I’d love it if Jesus showed up here to bless us too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night we were reading from Bridget’s Book of Mormon reader. We got to a chapter titled “Jesus blesses the children.” I asked Bridget if she’d like to read about how Jesus blesses us. She glanced down at the page, and immediately exclaimed, “How come Jesus shows up there? He doesn’t ever show up here […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bridget","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/387\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ernstrom.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}