Monday, July 13, 2009

Prayers and Nemo

Last week during a massage, my babysitter put on what she thought was a kid friendly movie, Pixar's Finding Nemo.I suppose it is to a child slightly than my 3 year old Lucas.
At the beginning of the movie, two clown fish, Marlin and his "wife" are admiring their eggs, when a shark comes and eats the mommy and all but one of the eggs. Disturbing when you think about it.
During prayer this evening Lucas prayed, "Dear Jesus, please make the shark spit out the mommy and baby fishes. Amen!"
Then he went on to explain how Jesus was going to reach down the shark's throat and take the fish out of his stomach.
Another example, he prayed that Jesus would make Chick Hicks from Pixar's Cars movie kind. The character was a jerk.
The faith of a child is a wondrous thing. How do you or do you even need to explain that movie characters aren't going to change simply by praying about it? They aren't real.
Real isn't understood till they're older. I certainly don't want to hamper his faith. So at this point I just smile and say, "really!" to his sweet prayers.

1 comments:

Anonymous said...

How sweet. Yea, I saw Nemo once and it seemed rather violent for a little kid's movie.
What a dear little boy Lucas is.
ac