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Wednesday, August 11, 2004

If a child can do it, why is it so hard for adults?

Chris W.'s post on going to church and being a Christian made me remember this story. It is a true story, a woman I know very well really did this every week as a child.

A little girl wakes up early every Sunday morning while everyone else quietly sleeps. Hungry, she slips into the kitchen, gets a step ladder, and grabs cereal, milk, and a bowl. If the milk doesn't quite work out right, she abandons the idea and eats the cereal dry. After eating, she goes into her bedroom, and picks out a dress. She bathes, brushes her teeth and attempts to do her hair. If her hair doesn't turn out quite right, she knows an adult will help her with it later. By the time she gets all of this accomplished, its time for her favorite Sunday morning TV show, so she proceeds to the living room. She carefully plugs in the TV and if the cables are disconnected in the back(as they often were) she would try to fix it, or wander down the hallway of her apartment building to get a neighbor to fix it. After her show was over, she would walk outside and wait for the church bus.

She went every Sunday. The only time that she missed was if she was very ill or her parents caught her(they were opposed to Christianity). This is a pretty good story, But what makes it amazing to me is that the girl was only 3.