“What he seems like in my imagination is he’s up in the sky and the sun is rising on him and he has a wide green body and white hair. In my imagination he looks silly. In my imagination it seems like the sun rises right on God. Because if God didn’t have light he wouldn’t be able to see anything...”
But then he reconsidered, apparently imagining heaven in outer space: “But if he lives up in space he doesn’t have light. It’s dark. So that means if it’s dark, he sleeps forever.”
Maybe he can work in the dark, I suggested. Will nodded in agreement and then drew this picture. 
At first I thought he’d drawn a crown on God’s head, but Will said, no, that was just his white hair, outlined in green.
At first I thought he’d drawn a crown on God’s head, but Will said, no, that was just his white hair, outlined in green.
How do you your children envision God -- or do they?
3 comments:
I asked and Cavan (3) says, "oh, I know! like a cross". Uh, I think that's an association with religion and a desire from Cavan to have the right answer. . . . His oder sister says she has always thought of God "with, like, thick arms- really thick arms. A ghostly face and body but wide, thick arms."
that would be older sister , not oder sister (so as not to be offensive to my girl)
Occasionally, Will seems like Owen's odor brother to me. Interesting that both Will and Nora describe God's body or arms as "wide," not just big...
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