Sailboat Picture

Posted by Chris:

Was just up in my office working about 10pm when Vince came in to show me his latest drawing. He said Dad this is for you. It was a pretty darn good picture of a sailboat. Better than average since I could see right off what it was (sometimes some explanation is needed). Anyway, I was admiring it and Vince told me all about it and how it was me and him in a sailboat. I asked him if he'd enjoy someday going sailing with me. He paused and said, "um, no thanks." I followed up to see what that was about and didn't get a straight answer.

He started talking about fishing in the ocean. He said that on his next birthday, if I get him a gift that turns out to not work very good, then (and this part was with great enthusiasm) that maybe we could go back to the store and buy him a fishing pole! I thought this was kind of funny for a couple reasons: One, on his last birthday I bought him a remote control car that didn't work very good so we took it back and he got to pick out any gift he wanted. He chose a car track toy thingy with a jump. So he must be thinking that is a cycle that will repeat. Second, we don't really go fishing. We've been to a fish pond a couple times but it was a while ago.

Few weeks back Vince saw a picture of Jesus walking on the water and helping the apostle who had started to fall in. He started explaining the story to me--I was pretty surprised. Then he said "only Jesus can do that in his flip flops."