Pull Up Yo Dross

Church in the home has its challenges. One of those, for some, is the challenge of involving and engaging the children. I personally see the teaching of the faith to my children as primarily my responsibility as their parent. Sure, I welcome the help of others who share our faith, but most of my children's religious education should and will come from me. So, house church works well for us since I am their primary source of teaching about the faith anyway.

This leads to what I'm about to tell you. The joys of involving children, in my opinion, far outweigh the challenges. Case in point was last Wednesday at our church:

We are still learning the hymn "How Firm a Foundation." We were discussin the verse text: "The flames shall not hurt thee, I only design/Thy dross to consume and thy gold to refine."

So I ask the children: "Do you know what 'dross' is?"
Levi replies: "Yeah! You mean like 'draws' right?" (gesturing to his pants.)

I then realize he is referring to "drawers," often pronounced in our city "drawwws" as in "Pull up yo' drawws, baby."

Of course, I cracked up!! We all did!! After which I high-fived my Levi. He's awesome!

I LOVE these moments! This experience (especially with my children) is priceless.

And yes, I did eventually explain the REAL definition of "dross."