Starts with C

Drawing time!

Wyatt had to draw something that begins with the letter C for preschool. So he chose Captain America's shield!

Wyatt calls this creature the Lava Spotted Snake!

School supply shopping for Kindergarten!

School supply shopping for Kindergarten!

Video - Wyatt telling me about The Sorcerer's Apprentice

Alien robots

These are alien robots. The one with the colorful face is "the boss".

 

Wyatt's zebra.

On God

Take any negative feelings about Christianity out of it. Take the Bible out of it. Think of God as... the pulse of the universe. Not a HIM; not Jesus; not any relation to religions created by man. Strip everything created by man away from it.

Imagine yourself on top of a mountain. The temperature is perfect. You are alone, but can see around you for hundreds of miles. You can hear the bugs in the grass; can hear the whispering of the breeze through the pines. You can smell the grass and the pine trees and the hint of a campfire from somewhere down the road. You can see the reflection of the sun off cars on a road many many miles away from you. You can feel the vibration of the people in those cars; the vibration of the trees; the vibration of the sky, the earth, the road you came in on. In this one moment, you can feel your connection to all the people who stood here before; to all the animals peering at you from their hiding places; to all the people in all the houses and cars; to the sun and stars; to a person standing on a mountain on the opposite side of the planet thinking the same thing. You feel your place in the world - both simultaneously tiny and insignificant in the vast universe, and extremely important and with purpose in the world. Have you ever had a moment like that? Where you were just connected to everything? THAT'S GOD. God isn't what man has defined Him to be, and God isn't the evil people who have done harm in His name. God isn't pain and anger. God is beauty and love and light. God is that vibration, that connection. It's the force that created us and everything that is, whether you want to think of that force in scientific terms, as a benevolent man, or as something more existential and new age. I do not think the only reason God created us is to have a personal relationship with Him. But I think a personal relationship with Him adds a dimension to our lives that opens us further, makes us feel more fully, and makes us MORE than we are closed off to Him.

I do not think we are a by-product of random events. I think there is meaning and purpose to everything that happens to us. But I also believe in free will (which I understand is a bit of a paradox). I think there are certain lessons each of us is here to learn. I think that the people we are connected to and the people whose lives we touch are for a reason.

I think that the universe contains MUCH more than simply us, and that we are not capable of understanding all that is. We are simply ants in a yard, making assumptions about everything outside our yard based on what we see. Ants cannot fathom Paris or New York or the ocean. And we cannot fathom all there is in the universe. Not when it comes to matter. Not when it comes to the "supernatural". And not when it comes to God.

Not believing in Him doesn't stop Him from existing. And writing books and making up a bunch of rules doesn't change His nature. He is Love. He is Light. He is in each of us whether we want to believe it or not.

A cwate they put dead bodies in

Another Wyatt pic from today...
Me: "Wow, this is great, Wyatt! What is this?" (pointing to the large rectangle)
Wyatt: "It's a cwate."
Me: "A crate? Cool. What's in it?"
Wyatt: "It's a cwate they put dead bodies in."
Me: !!!!!! "A COFFIN?"
Wyatt: "Yes, a coffin."
Me: "Ohhhh.... and what are these?" (pointing to the little circles with lines coming out of them.)
Wyatt: "Them are spiders."
Of course they are!

But on another note, this is the first "real" sun Wyatt has drawn and he did a great job.

 

 And this one is a robot in the water with starfish.