Does God Shave?

I dearly LOVE children! I have been a Bible Class teacher for many years at my church.  As a teen, I helped my mom and learned a lot from her about how to properly teach young kids about God and Jesus.  Later on, I became THE teacher instead of the helper. 

Me with my own kids during Vacation Bible School one year

I love teaching preschoolers the best!  I just love watching them learn and to be so excited about learning. One of my little girls rushes up to me on Sundays and says, "Let's go to class now!  I'm ready to learn."  If only everyone else was as eager to be there as she is!

 Every Sunday, I seem to have at least one funny story to tell about what happened or what was said during class.  That is how the name of this blog was decided! 

A few weeks ago, our lesson was about the stoning of Steven.  Boy, did that topic ever get their attention!

I tried not to linger too long on the actual rock throwing and Steven's death since it is a little much for these 4-5 year olds.  I instead, focused on Steven's looking to the heavens as he was about to die...looking upon God and Jesus as his comfort.  Their take-home paper was a figure of Steven and a cloud figure to glue on a sheet of construction paper.  Steven was looking up towards the heavens.  Next, they were to draw what they thought God and Jesus might have looked like.  This is where the deep question was asked of me.."Does God shave?"  Little 5 year old "P" asked me this.  I had to giggle a bit but got myself under control and said, "I really don't know."  "P" then said, "I don't think He does cos His beard is really, really long. It just keeps growing and growing and whenever He needs to talk or do something, He just moves it out of the way." One of the girls said,"We really don't know what God & Jesus looks like."  "P" said, "I do!  I've seen Him and his beard is really long.  He cuts His hair, but not His beard."  (All of this time, they're continuing to draw their perception of God & Jesus on their papers. And, I'm quietly laughing now and making notes of their conversation on my phone.)  One of my little girls, "J", says, "No, He doesn't have a beard.  He has a GOATEE!"  That comment pushed me over the edge and I just busted out laughing!  Funniest thing ever!  I have no idea where she got the idea of a goatee but it still cracks me up every time I think of it!  And, who knows?  Maybe God DOES have a goatee!