Thankfully, the boys make sure we pray before meals and before they go to bed. Countless of times, Hadrien would shout "hey, we forgot to pray!" as Raffy and I were on our fourth or so mouthful :) Hands clasped together with eyes closed, our 2 little angels would sing "God is great and God is good. Thank you God for our food. Amen."
At bedtime too, the routine starts with "it's prayer time!" :) The boys would always make sure that both Raffy and I were there with them. Their usual prayer goes "Dear Jesus, thank you for our blessings today. Please always watch over us and help us to be good boys. Thank you Jesus. We love you. Good night." After the typhoon which caused the sinking of the Princess of the Seas, they'd always add "please help the people in the typhoon". Obviously, the kids now understand that they are in a conversation with Jesus and have from time to time added a prayer to address their special needs like "please help us go to UPB tomorrow", "please help Hadrien's asthma go away"...
One time, I started the prayer saying "Dear God" instead of "Dear Jesus" and then corrected myself (since they were used to saying "Dear Jesus"). Hadrien being Hadrien, picked up on that right away.
H: Is Jesus God?
M: Yes, Jesus is God.
H: Is God Jesus?
M: Yes. (Thinking of introducing the concept of the Holy Trinity)
H: Is Jesus different from God?
M: There are 3 persons in one God (not even sure if I explained it correctly, besides whether he would get it). There's God the Father and Jesus.
H: Who's the third one - Amen?
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I should have known. Raffy's wisdom tooth is coming out only now at age _8 :) Anyway, he had to have it extracted as it was growing sideways and showed it to the kids. Yuck! After explaining what happened, Hadrien ran to the bathroom "I want to brush my teeth, Daddy!"
Baz, concerned about his dad's missing tooth, goes "I know! You can go to heaven and buy another tooth!" At 5, he now has a concept of everything originating from heaven. Don't ask me though why he thinks he can buy tooth in heaven!
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More philosophical questions from Baz: "How did God create himself?" ...after a while he reevaluated his premise and asked, "Who created God?"
This was after he asked Hadrien whether he was God because Hadrien was playing with a flashlight exclaiming, "Let there be light!" Baz proceeded to refer to Hadrien as "God" for the remainder of the afternoon, making Hadrien uneasy (especially after Baz pointed to the crucifix and said, "Go back to your cross, God.")
Coming from the concept that God is the almighty creator, Baz once asked me, "How did God create Himself?" Then he paused, thought about the question a bit, then asked, "Who created God?" I told him that that was a question a lot of people have asked and has remained unanswered...(unless you're an atheist then the answer would be "man." 'Course I didn't tell him that :P ) Ahh, Baz the Buddhist.
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