Why are things so confusing...

when you're 4? Today during the drive home from the store Clara's conversation went something like this...

- She wants a baby brother.
- She wanted to know how babies got into Mom's belly.
- She concluded that Jesus puts them there.
- She also concluded that Jesus is nice.
- Then she said that it was a good thing he is nice because when you die you meet him.
- She wanted to know if we come back to Earth after we die.
- She pointed out that after we die we are resurrected (yes, she used that word), so why wouldn't we come back to earth.
- She said that she would rather stay on Earth after she dies than go to Heaven.
- She panicked because even though Jesus is nice, she wants to live with Mom and Dad after she dies.
- She panicked when I told her Mom and Dad would probably die first and be waiting for her.
- She panicked more and more and ran through every morbid death situation that could occur including herself, mom and dad, her sister, her grandparents, and even her future children.

Of course, I am driving while she is having this conversation. I am tuning her out and skirting around her questions by saying "uh huh, yep, sure honey"... but then realize I am probably confusing her even more by not listening. So I try and answer the questions truthfully. Well, being truthful about death doesn't work, not with a 4 year old, and not when said 4 year old probably knows more about it than I do. She is a better listener in church...