Back Seat Conversations

“Mom,” Timmy, my six year old speaks up amidst the back seat noise and mayhem.

“Yes,” I answer eager to know what was on his mind. He’s usually my quiet one.

“Which would you rather do, read the whole Bible in a day or read one page of a huge gigantic Bible the size of the entire world.”

Silence from me and the back seat gang as we contemplate his question.

Joey, my 9 year old, chimes in. “That would be impossible. A book that size would cover the whole world and we couldn’t read it. Anyway, how would it get here? The page couldn’t fit in a printer.”

Timmy, unmoved by his comment, answers. “It wouldn’t cover the earth because it would be floating and Aliens put it there.”

Chris, my 11 year old who always finds the easy way out, says “I would read the page because the letters would be bigger.”

A couple of seconds of debating about the letter size of the giant Bible page and Timmy speaks up, “No, the letters would be the same size as the real Bible.”

After a little more discussion we all decide that we’d rather read the whole Bible in one day.

Hey, I’m happy if I get to read the Bible on any given day of the week.