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So, the other morning me and little Stevo are getting ready for school and work.
I ask him, merely curiousity...if he knows why we celebrate Good Friday. Knowing that he knows about Jesus from my blasphemous bedtime stories that I like to tell...you know, the one where Jesus goes to a birthday party and the host didn't have enough cake or pop, so he...you got it! Makes more by turning the paper plates into cake and turning water into pop...so, having such a mother as I and a skewed version of religion, I prepared myself for the worst.
"Because that is the day that my dad comes to pick me up."
Okay, his dad was coming to pick him up and it was Good Friday, but, as a mother, it was up to me to keep him up to speed and instill some sort of religious truths and values into his little mind.
"No, dear. That was the day that Jesus died on the Cross."
He slaps his head to pronounce his stupidity and say, "Oh...yeah...right." Always the drama king.
"Do you know why we celebrate Easter."
Not willing to risk another wrong answer, he safely just shakes his head "no."
"Because that is the day that Jesus rose from the dead....three days after Good Friday."
Thinking that there is no room for elaboration and I have just fulfilled my televangelism duties for the year, I anticipate a silent head nod in understanding...not so much...
"Oh! So, that's the day that Jesus rose from the dead and tortured everyone!"
Okay...technically, the kid has something there. Because I am Episcopalian, and that is about as close as you can get to being Roman Catholic. That said...yes, the Church goes all out for Easter...the incense...the candles burning...the ten hour long litergy...the kneeling...the standing...the Latin...the singing...it goes on forever.
So, yes...it is torture. But, I can't have a six year-old have the upper hand and did the best thing that I could do and confuse and befuddle him with religious facts and tried to throw the holy ghost in there while he just stared at me with a confused look on his face, cut me off mid-sentence and said," Mom! I'm going to be late for school!"
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