Often times we underestimated our children's Morality or Spirituality Quotient. It is quite amazing how our creator puts that
instinctive sense in us that we naturally seek out to Him; that is, unless we
are instructed to do so otherwise.
G (then 4-years old) was playing alone upstairs in the game
room one day. While I was attending to
some business downstairs, he asked me to go upstairs to see what he has
done. This is what I was looking at.
G explained to me what he and his brother, who had gone to
school for the day, had built - Heaven and Hell. Heaven, he explained, is on the right side of
the train table. Hell, separated by the
train track, is on the left side. Hell,
according to him, has bad guys, garbage, broken things, and chaos. (Don't ask me why that American flag is
there...)
Heaven, on the other hand, is neat, orderly, and has museums
and tall skyscrapers that touch the sky.
A friend noticed the silver car on top of the bridge and
asked me to ask the boys who is driving that car. I hadn't even noticed that
little car until this friend pointed out, so I asked him.
G, then 4-year old, said that the people in the silver car
is "us." The bridge is leading
(curves) toward Heaven.
"But we have to be careful driving on that bridge or
else we'll fall into Hell on our way to Heaven," he said.
How profound is that!!
The amazing thing to me was that we have never described
Heaven or Hell to them in graphic details before. All we've conjured up to them was a
conceptual sense that Heaven is where you go afterlife if you are good, and
Hell the opposite. Interestingly, they
were able to imagine Heaven and connected it with their favorite things
(museums & skyscrapers) and favorable things (order & neatness). Conversely, they identified Hell as what they
deemed as bad (pirates, prisoners, mean people, garbage, reptile, chaos). Coincidentally, the area in Heaven was
smaller than Hell, indicating that Heaven is a place for few selected.
I should also note that this was a display completely done
on their own independently without any adult supervision or instruction.
Four and five year olds - and they get God.
So it is written, "I thank You, Father, Lord of heaven
and earth, that You have hidden these things from the wise and prudent and have
revealed them to babes. Even so, Father, for so it seemed good in Your
sight." (Matthew 11:25-26)
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