Jesus Week

A lot seems to be happening this week. For one thing, I am eating a lot of hot cross buns, which I call "ba ba bun". I really like them a lot!

Yesterday DaDa read a story to me called My Day with Jesus, about a donkey who gives Jesus a ride. We just heard about that at the Family Service at our church on Sunday. When people ask me "Where do you go on Sundays?" I tell them "Church!" Then I make the music sign, because we have lots of music there and sometimes I help with the singing up at the front or in the creche [nursery]. Anyway, we were supposed to have a donkey at church on Sunday, like they do most years, but apparently he didn't like the donkey trailer that came to bring him, so one of the pastors brought his labrador named Dibley instead, and he went up and down the aisles saying hello to people. I stayed in for the whole service this week, as there was no creche.

Last night MaMa was reading a story to me called The Three Trees. I kept calling the trees "candles" because they really look like that, don't you think [see cover to left]? Finally, I accepted what Mommy told me, that they were trees but that the artist really did make them look a lot like candles. Anyway, she shortened the story a bit for me--there were too many words on each page. On one page it said that one of the trees was made into a cross. When she read that bit, it caught my interest and I immediately pointed to her necklace. She was really surprised! Later she asked me, "JoMo, where's Mommy's cross?" And I showed her. Amazing that she could forget where she put it, since it was around her neck! She was trying to explain what this cross was all about, but I'm not sure I get it. Something about Jesus and this Friday when we remember him on this cross made from a tree, and then Sunday when we go to church and celebrate Jesus being alive. It's a big week for Jesus!

. . . On second thought, MaMa thinks maybe a candle on a hill isn't a bad way to think about the cross.