You can't take your skin with you

Had a rather interesting conversation with Kadence on Friday. She learned in pre-school that your soul lives forever. Now, souls are hard to explain to 4 year olds (took me a week to explain the Godhead when that came up in school.) So when she informed Patrick that he was going to live forever, she didn't understand the difference in a living body vs. a living soul, and he doesn't realize that SHE'S 4! He told her that he was going to have to die someday, because we all die. 

Here she was thinking that he was going to live forever (or his soul was,) and now she's trying to figure out how if everyone's soul lives forever, why does daddy's have to die? She was upset, and to make her feel better, he told her he wasn't going to die for a very long time. She would be married, and have kids, and he'd be a grandpa before he died.

Again, she's 4. . .and I wasn't present for this conversation.

 The kids and I were on our way back home from picking up milk from the co-op, and Kadence is looking forlorn and upset in the backseat. Then she informs me "I don't want to call Daddy grandpa! I don't want his soul to die!"

I had to have her repeat that 2 more times to make sure that was really what she said. I was quite confused.

Me: You're not supposed to call Daddy "grandpa." Daddy will always be your daddy. Daddy's soul isn't going to die. Souls live forever.
Kadence: No, Daddy said I'll have to call him grandpa, and that his soul is going to die!
Me (slowly figuring out what's going on): No, I think what daddy said was that when you have kids, he's going to be THEIR grandpa. Daddy's soul isn't going to die. Everyone's BODY eventually get old, worn out, and dies, but then your soul goes to live forever in Heaven.
Kadence: But I don't want to die!
Me: You're not going to die for a long time.
Kadence (crying): Can I take my skin?
Me (trying not to lose it): No, your skin has to stay here.
Kadence (wailing, with tears streaming down her cheeks): But without my skin, it's just a skeleton!!!
Me (officially lost it, but trying to hide my face so she doesn't see me laughing): No baby, your old, worn out body has to stay here, but when your soul gets to heaven, you get a whole NEW body!
Kadence: (continues crying)
Me: Look, there's Sonic. Will a slush make you feel better?
Kadence (stops crying): Yes, I want a smurth one. (We call blue powerade slushes smurf slushes)


Yes, I changed the subject by stopping at Sonic and getting her a slush. Tell me, what would YOU have done. lol


Later that afternoon she was up in her room until Korvin went to sleep. I was watching Supernatural for a little bit until he was asleep, and I called her to come down. It was paused on the TV when she came into the living room, and she asked "Can I watch your show with you?" I told her she wasn't big enough to watch my show with me. So then she asked "When I go to heaven and get a new body, can I watch your show with you?" I told her we won't be watching shows in heaven..."Well, then when I grow up into an adult body, can I watch your show with you?"


I'm going to be sorting this out for a long time. . .and Patrick has been told not to have talks with her anymore. :)