tiny talk

First, let me say thank you to all who participated in or left supporting comments on the More of Him Monday. If you haven't checked out those who left their link, please do so. There's some pretty powerful stuff there.

I also have to say woo-hoo for the Rockies. We beat the Padres last night and we're going to the Wild Card play-offs!

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Okay, I'm so excited. Mary, of Not Before 7, hosts Tiny Talk Tuesday and I have never participated because I don't have any tiny talk in my house any more. It's all teenager talk and, frankly, it's not very interesting.

But today I do have some tiny talk to share. This was a conversation between me and a 2nd or 3rd grade boy from my church on Sunday after the service. In case you didn't know it, Don and I are the youth directors at this church. We often have the younger kids come into our room just wanting to hang out (you know, be like the big kids) or looking for candy. A lot of them know that we have candy as we use it for games and such.

So this little boy comes in asking me if I have any candy. I tell him no, that we ran out. He goes through my box and finds a baggie full of dimes (for a game we play) and asks if he can use the money to buy candy out of the candy machine that is present in the room. I didn't say yes or no right away. Instead we stood there at the machine and talked about our favorite kind of candy. He was so endearing that I agreed to buy a bag of candy if he would share it with the other younger kids that were hanging around. He agreed.

After leaving the room to pass out the candy he came back in to tell me how sad one kid was because he didn't get any candy. "Could we buy more," he asks. I tell him I don't have enough money left to buy another bag. He was deep in thought for about a second and then came up with this:

boy: I know... I can sneak into Mr. Cameron's room (children's ministry) and steal some money from the basket he has that's full of money.

me: Whoa! Let's think about this...

at which point I'm interrupted with...

boy: I do it all the time at home.

me: Let's talk about this. First, sneaking isn't really a good thing but do you know what's really not good? stealing! That's money that the other children have given to God. You could ask Mr. Cameron if he has a dime you could borrow, but let's not steal.

He thinks for another second.

boy: Okay. I'm going to go tell him I need my money back, that I shouldn't have given him as much as I did.

With that, he ran off - before I could say anything else. Maybe this is one of those times you needed to be there for it to be humorous. The kid was so sincere and didn't think anything of sneaking somewhere, stealing, or lying. I guess I need to go have a talk with Mr. Cameron.


oh.... and I have another tiny talk.

This one is from my niece who just turned 6. I called her for her birthday but she had just been put down to bed. Her mom, my sister, took the phone into her so I could wish her a happy birthday. As she goes into my niece's bedroom, she tells her aunt Diana is on the phone. Before taking the phone, she stretches out her hand and whispers to her mom, "I have a booger in my hand." Of course, my sister cracks up which made my niece crack up and I got a good chuckle out of it.

Maybe these aren't as funny as the tiny talk I usually read through Mary's links, but I always get a little jealous that I don't have the tiny kids to record the tiny talk. This was my chance. So thanks for letting me take it =]

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link of the day:
http://roxik.com/pictaps/