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I get done praying with Cayden and she asks me…

“What does sacrifice mean?”

I kick myself for using that big word in prayer with her.

“Well…a sacrifice is when you give up something very, very valuable to you because you want to…not because you have to.”

She pauses. I can tell she’s deciding whether or not my definition is adequate enough to roll over and go to sleep.

“So Jesus was a sacrifice…right?”

“Right…our sin - the stuff we do and think that isn’t God-like - introduced death to the world. It is what sin does - it kills things. So Jesus - loving us as He does - chose to die for us.”

She looks at me again…shakes her head while smiling…

“But Dad, He’s God and he kinda had to do that, right?”

“I guess your kinda right on that.”

“Good night, Daddy.”

And I wandered off to think deeply of the theology of a 5 year old.