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I’ve been out of town this week away from my home, my wife and my son. Shortly before I left I was alone with Squirts for a few minutes watching TV. I think it was a new cartoon called “Kick Buttowski.” Can you believe that’s the name of a kid’s cartoon?
Anyway, that seemed like a good moment to talk to Squirts about my being gone for a few days. The conversation went something like this.
I know what it feels like to be God.
Does that sound boastful? Or heretical? It’s not meant to be either of those. If anything, it’s meant to be sympathetic. Because, as the parent of a four-year-old boy, I think I’ve begun to get an inkling of what God experiences every day.
Consider these points and see if I’m not right and if you can’t relate:
The God Voice – there are times with Squirts when this voice comes from my body that I never knew existed. It’s of a tone, volume and quality that I’ve never once used with another person in my life. It’s like I’m channeling movie announcer Don LaFontaine from the other side. It comes out in warning when he runs too close to the edge of the street. It reveals itself in fear for the split second I lose sight of him in a crowded park. It’s unleashed in anger when he’s plucked the very last of my nerves.
