{"id":16747,"date":"2023-07-12T16:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T16:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/?p=16747"},"modified":"2023-09-11T16:47:03","modified_gmt":"2023-09-11T16:47:03","slug":"out-of-the-mouths-of-babes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/featured\/out-of-the-mouths-of-babes\/","title":{"rendered":"Out of the Mouths of Babes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It was hot, and we were on a beach at Kootenay Lake of British Columbia, enjoying fun and relaxation with family.  Somehow the conversation turned to God, and my 17-year-old has some pretty strong ideas about religion.  He, like his older two brothers, had the privilege<\/em> of growing up with a pastor as a dad. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A pastor dad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A verbose, verbal-processing, pastor dad.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So you might understand my bewilderment when my Catholic school attending, mass\/liturgy every week kind of Catholic school, 17-year-old son, starts to quote the Lord\u2019s Prayer and said:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cOur Father, who aren\u2019t<\/strong> in heaven.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My daughter in Love stopped him \u2013 \u201cWhat did you say?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My son repeated himself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She replied, \u201cDid you say aren\u2019t<\/em>?\u201d  \u201cGod aren\u2019t<\/em> in heaven?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My son replied \u201cYes\u201d with a look of what\u2019s your issue?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She replied \u201cI think it goes Our Father who art<\/em> in heaven \u2026\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My son straightened up, his face contorted with a \u201cWhat, wait, really?\u201d  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAll this time I thought it was aren\u2019t<\/em> in heaven.  In all the liturgies through school, I thought they were saying aren\u2019t<\/em>.  That\u2019s how I thought it was said.\u201d

The two of them, doubling over with laughter were in a race to see which one could tell pastor dad that his kid had been screwing up the Lord\u2019s Prayer all these years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m sure at first my mouth hung open in disbelief, a flash of embarrassment and then we all began to laugh together.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through my laughter, I asked him \u201cReally?  You didn\u2019t think aren\u2019t<\/em>was weird?\u201d  To which he replied. \u201cDad, I think art<\/em> is weird!\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut, son\u201d, I pursued, didn\u2019t it seem strange to think that God aren\u2019t in heaven?  Besides the bad grammar, if God aren\u2019t in heaven, then where is God?\u201d

He replied, \u201cI didn\u2019t think much of it \u2018cause you always keep saying God is with us.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Selah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It was hot, and we were on a beach at Kootenay Lake of British Columbia, enjoying fun and relaxation with family.  Somehow the conversation turned to God, and my 17-year-old has some pretty strong ideas about religion.  He, like his older two brothers, had the privilege of growing up with a pastor as a dad.  A pastor…","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":16748,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16749,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16747\/revisions\/16749"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamsignificant.ca\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}