A few days ago at dinner, we were talking about a woman at church who was in a car accident. We were telling the kids that we need to pray for her recovery. Because of things that happened with my Dad, the kids associated being in the hospital with dying. We had to explain that just because she was in the hospital, it didn't mean that she was going to die. We were also able to talk more about heaven and the joy we will experience there.
Andrew then said, "I hope that when you and Dad die, I am old and already have a wife and kids. Because if you died now, there would be no one to take care of us."
Before I could respond, Nathan said, "Yeah. We'd have to go to an orphanage or something."
We were able to have a conversation about how we love them and have made plans for them if that were to occur. And, we were able to reassure them that the chances of that happening are very small. It wasn't something that we had ever thought about talking about, but apparently they needed to know.
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