Kids say the darndest things

I absolutely love to hear a four- or five-year-old talk.

They can be so adorable and funny. Yes, even mine.

We were lying in the bed the other night, after bath and stories, listening to the first songs on "Jed's" lullaby CD. After the first two songs, I leave the room.

Usually, we don't talk. We just say our prayer and then "try to go to sleep."

But this time, "Jed" had a question. He'd been watching the Disney Channel, and had seen a preview for the new teen movie Starstruck. He wanted to know about it. But I didn't know anything. So our conversation went like this, when he spoke with his sweet soft voice into the darkness.

Mommy, why is Starstruck a big-kid movie?

Buddy, I don't know. I don't even know what that is.

It's a new show on Disney Channel. Why is it for big kids?

Buddy, I told you, I don't know. I don't know anything about the show. We'll talk about it in the morning. Just go to sleep now.

-Brief silence, while I think I know what he's thinking, then-

It's not like a star that got struck by lightning, Mommy.
It's just the name of the show.

Yep, that's exactly where I thought his mind had gone. I guess a Mommy knows her little boy and how he thinks.

Just like God knows God's little children and how they think. Kinda scary, and really comforting.