“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul
and with all your might.” ~Deuteronomy 6:5
As Ruthie was playing with one of her baby dolls the other day, she informed me, “Baby loves God 23 pounds.”
“Oh,” I said, “and how much do you love God?”
“I love God 24 pounds,” she replied proudly.
She then wanted to know how much I loved God and how much Daddy loved God. I made up some extravagant number in answer for myself and then told her we’d ask Daddy when he got home from work. The conversation moved on to other things, and I tucked it away as something to write in the journal I keep of cute things she says. I didn’t really think much more about it until Dave got home. I repeated the conversation to him, and then Ruthie asked him,
“How much do you love God, Daddy?”
“I love God 175 pounds.” His full weight.
My husband’s poignant answer has been haunting my thoughts ever since. How many pounds do I love God, really? Do I give Him my full weight? I’d like to live my life so that my daughter can proudly say, “My mommy loves God 132 pounds.”
