And the answer is...Pass

My daughter C recently had her 7th birthday and, despite not having one of my kids' party extravaganzas (bouncy castle and exotic costumes mandatory), she seemed to do quite well out of it. She's into makeup at the moment - usually mine - so to help alleviate the drain on my budget branded cosmetics, my friend R bought C some makeup of her own. She bought her Clinique eyeshadow and lip gloss! So now it's me sneaking in to borrow C's makeup. At least I was until she caught me in the act and hid it from me.

Not actually C or actual Clinique makeup. Image blatantly lifted off the internet.

So now that C is 7, she wants to know everything. This had been brewing for a while with an endless stream of questions on the daily drive home from school. Really deep and spiritually profound stuff:

Why don't people in planes see God when they go up in the sky?
If God made the flowers, who made the seeds?
How was God born?
Who made God?

I'm impressed. I've done my best to answer most of her questions as simply as I can but C's getting to the point where she's able to tell if I'm fluffing it. The truth is, that I just don't know all the answers to all the questions. I'll never know whether or not Adam and Eve had a belly button - at least not this side of Heaven. So I'm finding that the truth is the best answer I can give her.

I don't think God expects us to know all things about Him either. I came across this verse the other day:
"As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the body is formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things."
(Ecclesiastes 11:5)

I think I just found the perfect answer to a lot of C's questions. One size fits all: "I don't know. That's why God is God and I'm just a little human being"
She seems content with that for the time being. Even so, I fully intend to ask Jesus lots of questions when I get to see Him face to face.

Just a little side thought about the mysteries of how the body is formed in a mother's womb...they didn't have the advantage of scans during Old Testament times so there was no peeking. I guess it really was an enigma with nobody having any idea of what was really going on in there.

Speaking of wombs, which makes me think of placentas, which makes me think of belly buttons...did they or didn't they? Adam and Eve...bellybuttons...innies or outies...???