"I saw God" she said.  "Oh really?"  I said.  "What did he look like?"  "Spinning." she said.  "Everything spinning."

My children, didn't know about any kind of God until recently, when we began saying the serenity prayer together in times of stress... times of growth, and the pain that sometimes is part of it.  I have yet to figure out exactly how to talk to my children, now 3 & 6 about God, so I haven't. 

I wondered at that time, how she (now 3 yrs old) thought she saw God.  She's never been to sunday school.  She's never been to church.  We have no friends or family that believe in God or would have spoke to her about Him.

I wondered... but kids do just say things... I thought.

A few weeks have gone by. 

This morning we are coloring together at the dining table, and the sun is pouring in on us.  It's pleasant quiet time and I tell her the story of her birth.  She loves that story.  After re-telling it a few times, I can't think of any new twist, and although she is happy to just hear it over and over exactly the same, I tire of it finally, and tell her I will talk about it again tomorrow with her.  She says "Okay.  God loves me you know."  I stop coloring and look at her sweet smile and big eyes excited to be telling me the truth. 

"Oh he does?"  I say.  "How do you know that?"  Since I have never told her anything like that, and I can't imagine who else would have... I'm pretty curious!  "She told me when I was born.  She whispered it to me."  And then she showed me, by whispering those words into my ear, how she claimed God whispered to her. 

I said - "How do you know it was God?"  She said.  "I don't know, it just was, and She loves everyone.  She's everywhere... spinning."  Then she got up and showed me with a whirl... hands in the air... and sat back down and finished coloring her flower.