Empty Easter Eggs and the Big Scone
Happy belated Easter! I was hoping to post a clip of Tony Campolo's "It's Friday, but Sunday's Coming" on Good Friday (along with a Happy Good Friday! title), but I couldn't find a clip of it on youtube. I did find this very interesting multi-media presentation/indictment on the failings of American Christians, cut to Ben Harper's The Power of
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Read her the Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe. Aslan's death IS Christ's death (you know this, you CS Lewis fan, you.) Lewis wrote it specifically so that when kids heard the death and resurrection story, it would ring familiar; so they'd feel a bond for Jesus through this character they love--Aslan.
In a story, with characters kids know on some level are not 'real,' it is easier and kinder to broach the subject of death. As a Christian, you are teaching her that not only is Jesus REAL but that he lives in all of you, including her. That might be a bit...confusing and scary, ya know?
So goes the advice from this religion-less heathen. /g/
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Sometimes, that's the best kind :)
I like your idea about using fiction to help broach the subject and I will definitely read her tLtWatW one day, but that particular scene (as I recall it -- it's been a few years) might terrify her more than comfort her.
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There is a book--William's Nine Lives or something like that. It's the story about a really old cat who dies and gets to pick his ninth (and final) life. I used to read it to my classes in school. Great book to introduce death to little ones. I can't seem to find the right title, but I'll dig the book out of my box and find it out.
There are some really great picture books for kids. Oh, did you ever read her Monster Mamma??? Not about death but a parent's (mother's) love. Gosh...I have to get my books out!
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