Mamma I’m Going To Buy Jesus A Train!

Kids really say some of the most amazing things. For instance, today my daughter went on a ramble about everything in the world she wanted for Christmas. I interrupted her thesis by asking her what she was going to give Jesus. Since she is going through the Thomas the train phase, she replied, I’m going to buy Jesus a train! Like children, we often base our requests on our limited conception of what we deem desirable and we sometimes equate God’s desire as comparable to our own. My daughter thought having a train was the highest of gifts because that’s on her list -not knowing Jesus already has a train. Which reminds me of the phrase, “What do you give a man who has everything?”