Story Worth Sharing

Recently, I was driving my children through the McDonalds drive-thru, and this prompted Colette to proclaim, "When I grow up I want to work at McDonalds." Uh-oh. "And I am going to work in the drive-thru." Oh no. "Then I can give away a bunch of money." Yes! Of course, Calvin would not let this go without commentary, "You can't work at McDonalds and give a lot of money away, you need to make a lot of money so that you can keep some money for yourself, and still give a lot away." Uh-oh, again. As I am rattling through possible responses, Josh decides to resolve the debate by dropping this bomb, "I think Jesus told a story about this. There is a rich guy who gives a lot of money away and an old lady who is poor, but gives away her last penny. Jesus says that the poor lady actually gave more." Wow. Just as I am about to break my arm patting myself on my back for my amazing parenting, Calvin humbles me with, "That's right, I remember seeing a video about that." Yuck. Curse you VeggieTales. Oh well, back to trying to teach kids about Jesus, and also learning from them.