Psalm 23 from the Mouth of a Child. Surely goodness and love will follow me . . .

Jennifer on turning the other cheek: “Thinking about all this made me realize that I had always mentally compartmentalized people into two different groups: the people who live through horrible tragedy who I hear about on the news, and the people who I interact with in my daily life. The people on the news had almost theoretical status: they were people who I will never actually meet but, if I hypothetically were to meet them, I’d be extra motivated to be as perfectly Christ-like as possible, no matter what, so that I didn’t add to the suffering they’d seen in their lives. However, the thinking went, I don’t actually know anyone like that.

But of course I do.”

In a different vein, what could be better than a combination of Bible verse memorization and a storytelling daddy? I think this, too, is contagious faith.