Jesus money....

harper and calvary have started really anticipating church with excitement these past few months. the church we are attending has a phenomenal children's program and harper and calvary love going to their own worship service and they are soaking up the Word like a sponge. i love hearing them recite their memory verses, "my God will take care of you--phil 4:19", and having them ask me questions about what they heard that day. i was not too shocked when harper suddenly asked me to help her get money out of her bank so she could have some "Jesus money." the next week calvary also asked for "Jesus money" and i started to think that this must be something more than harper's silly name attaching skills....she loves to name things, case in point; jack-jack and poppy....i asked them about the money and harper told me that she wanted to give money to Jesus. at this point i felt it was necessary that harper understand that she was not giving the money to Jesus (just in case there was some confusion) personally but that we give money to the church so that we can help teach people about Jesus or help people that are in need. calvary looked at me and said that he needed his Jesus money so that he could "listen to God." wow. i told calvary that thankfully we do not have to pay God to have him listen to us. and kyle and i had a good laugh. what makes the story even better is that even though harper and calvary are working under the assumption that they are giving money to Jesus so that God will listen to them when we picked harper up from her class on sunday we were surprised (or not really surprised coming from my little stasher) to hear that she decided to only give one of her quarters to Jesus. the other she kept for herself. sigh.