At home, there is
now a renewed interest to review, reread and study the Bible. You see, Little Guy is going to be seven very
soon and he should be prepared to receive his First Communion.
His school is
non-sectarian and, therefore, does not have a Religion subject. Catechism is taught once a week, during lunch
break, and held informally at the stairs landing at the top floor of their
school building.
Little Guy is now
of an age when he and some friends have learned to skip the Catechism
class. They ask to be excused to go to
the toilet and never get back. Imagine,
cutting classes at age seven!
Wacky then
decides that he will no longer attend this class and will instead be home
tutored. Having been a volunteer
catechist while in school, Wacky feels that the task should not prove too much
of a challenge.
I buy a
Catechism book to use as guide. Little
Guy takes to it with such delight and requests that he read through it first
before we seriously sit down on the lessons.
He stays glued to this book for days.
One night, while
getting ready to sleep, he asks his mother, “Mommie, do you know about Moses?”
Mommie, confident
of her knowledge of Moses, emphatically says, “Of course!”
“Do you know what
his punishment was?” Little Guy
counters.
Hmmmm…. Mommie suddenly feels tricked into a sticky situation. With bravado, though, she says, “ Yes, of
course!” and holds her breath.
Thankfully, Little Guy suddenly quips,
“He never got to enter the Promised Land!”
Deep, grateful
breaths from Mommie, who could only say, “Yes!”
Ha-ha-ha-ha-ha
* * * * *
Anaconda (anak
kong maganda or my beautiful daughter) as Mommie wants to be referred to, comes to me afterwards.
“Ma, what is this
about Moses not entering the Promised Land?”
“Yup. God led him to a mountain so he could see the
Promised Land. He never got to enter it,
though, because that was his punishment for losing his temper and striking the
rock more times than God's instruction. You should read about that. This story is one of the most touching stories I have
encountered.”
“OMG! I must read the Bible! This Little Guy might trip me up the next
time!”
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