After telling Luke the story of Jonah and the whale and answering a million questions about "why did Jonah disobey?" "Why did Jonah get on the boat?" "Why did the whale swallow him?" "Why did God tell Jonah to do that?" "Why this why that?" I was exasperated with all the why's - especially the ones I didn't have answers for or I'd answered several times already. Can't you just listen to a story, child? No, he's like his Dad and has to understand the story inside and out, backwards and forwards, before he can set it aside.
Luke asked for the fiftieth time "Why did Jonah run away from God?" and after answering the same way fifty times, I tired of the same old same old and sarcastically answered, "Because he wanted to throw himself off a cliff!" and Luke asked, "Onto a boat?"
outwitted by a three-year-old.
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