When Todd and I started dating, I let him know that religion
is very important to me. Thankfully, he was already a Christian with a belief
in God. He didn't really care what domination we were, so we are Lutheran since
that’s what I grew up as.
Emily’s been a member of the same church since she was a
baby. She was baptized when she was about three months old. She started going
to preschool at our church last year and attended her first Vacation Bible
School this summer.
Because we are a Christian household, we pray and talk about
God a lot. Since Emily is four, she is able to understand some of it. We focus
on how God loves us and I have also told her that thunder is just God bowling
because the noise freaks her out.
Right after VBS this year, she started talking more about
God and how he was with her. It morphed into god being her imaginary friend. Her
friend, god, is a little boy about her age who likes cars. She doesn't talk
about him all the time but sometimes, and she does know he’s imaginary and that
it’s just a game.
I haven’t discouraged her at all, but I do wonder what some
people might think when she starts talking about her friend, god, in the store.
But I want to encourage her to use her imagination because I think imagination
is a good thing.
Did your kids ever have an oddly named imaginary friend?
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