view from our van tonight

We are driving to a Mexican restuarant to meet some friends tonight when Ian pipes up with "I am the vine you are the branch" from John 15:5. He then goes on to explain to us that verse saying we (the branches)are part of God (the vine). But then he asks, "if we do something bad our branch falls off the tree right? When we do a bad thing does God take our branch away?" He looked so serious. Nate and I went on to explain that once we accept Jesus as our savior we are ALWAYS a part of the vine no matter what. The cool thing is that we all mess up and do bad things but that we will always be forgiven by Jesus and so we don't have to have our branch taken away from the vine. After that he just smiled at me and looked out the window. Such deep thoughts tonight from a usually very silly five year old. But he made us proud and I'm sure he made God smile too!