A child who heard the expression, “this footstool,” used in a conversation, asked the man on whose knees she sat at the time the meaning of the expression. On being told that the earth is often spoken of as “God’s footstool,” she exclaimed:
“O-h-h! what long legs!”
Another child drew a picture of Jesus and of God, making God have very long arms.
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HEAVENLY MAIL FACILITIES
A child whose grandmother had just died asked her mother if God had a street and a number. When asked why she wanted to know, she replied:
“Nothing, only I wanted to write a letter to Him to send grandma back again.”
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A COWORKER WITH GOD
A three-year-old boy was with a woman whose home was a second home to him. They were in the flower-garden. Seeing a crocus in bloom, and remembering that the previous fall he had put the bulb into the ground (as one of his age so often does things, by the help of others), he asked, “Did I make that flower grow?” When told that God sent the rain and the sunshine which made it grow, he insisted that he had had a part in the process, and finally dropt the subject by saying: