Conversations with a 4 year old

Tonight, just before she went to sleep, Emma asked me a few simple questions:
"Why is God invisible?"
"Is him a person or tv?"
"What does him look like?"

She also asked me how God made her.

Just a few easy questions from my technically not yet 4 year old!
I needed to jot these down before I forget!

Something new to the blog: Book Notes
So, I'm in this book club, and on an entirely other note, this week we talked about "On Chesil Beach," by Ian McEwan. I had a few more thoughts that I just needed to get out and express, and just didn't get a chance to fit them all in over dinner and wine. Most of the other women held a certain degree of hostility towards the female main character but I didn't. I thought it was ok that she did not do what was expected of her. She broke out of a role and went for her own happiness. PLOT TWIST: at the expense of her husband. (Thus, the hostility, me thinks). To say I liked the book is not to say I agreed with or even liked the story, but the message was there, bigger than the two characters and their happiness or unhappiness. Leave it to a former English major to make that statement--we live in shades of gray. At the end of the book the husband says: "This is how the entire course of a life can be changed--by doing nothing." A statement I agree with profoundly.

Other recent book club reads that I recommend: "Three Cups of Tea," by Greg Mortenson. I was inspired and learned so much and when I opened the book, I thought I would NEVER like it, because it's non-fiction, which isn't my genre. You can find out more at threecupsoftea.com or ikat.org. As I read, I kept thinking: look at what one person can do if they stop watching TV, get up off the couch and just live. I think you'll be inspired, too. It's the opposite of Doing Nothing.