Anneliese with a scrap of fabric left over from making one of Daddy's stoles.
My wife Jennifer was reading the story of Jesus’ Ascension (Acts 1.6-11) from the Spark Story Bible to my three-year-old daughter Anneliese tonight. They had a great conversation:
Anneliese: What does “ascension” mean?
Jennifer: Let’s read the story, and then maybe you can tell me.[They read the story.]
Jennifer: So, what does “ascension” mean?
Anneliese: Raise up?
Jennifer: Very good. After Jesus died and became alive again, he ascended into heaven. He went up into the air. He went up into heaven alive, and lives in every person who is baptized.
Anneliese: Me and you and Peter and Daddy?
Jennifer: And everyone who is baptized.
Anneliese: Just like, “Joined to Christ in the waters of baptism”?