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Grem­lin, my 6 year old, is still at that age that he likes to cud­dle with me and reflect on things we see or maybe some­thing we’ve done together. How­ever Old­man, my 10 year old,is ‘much too old for that silli­ness’. So when he takes the time to sit with me and pon­der life I stop what­ever I’m doing and enjoy it. We have this small statue on our back deck. Old­man has always adored it because the boy-statue is sit­ting cross-legged with a jar of fire­flies in his lap. It’s pow­ered by a solar panel so when evening comes the fire­fly lights go crazy.

Since it was rain­ing we knew we weren’t going to get a chance to see the fire­flies work their magic, but he did ask, “Mom…Do you think God cre­ated us to have two purposes?”

{gulp}

“I sure do. Your pur­pose for Grem­lin is to be a help­ing big brother, and for me your pur­pose is just to be my son that learns from me. Your pur­pose in this life will change often, but I believe you’ll know what those pur­poses are when the time is right.”

He thought about that for a minute then said, “Yeah, I see what you mean. Take that statue for exam­ple. I always thought it’s entire job was to be the boy who held the fire­flies in the jar. But because of the rain, I see that he’s much more beau­ti­ful just as a boy sit­ting in the rain, admir­ing his jar full of fire­flies. Know what I mean in that difference?”

…yes, baby, I do…

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