Teaching my kids religion was always going to be one of those things that I wasn’t sure how I was going to handle. I still want to write a book called “Raising a Non Denominational Child” that explains it, but I don’t know how to do it yet. *grin*

I was raised Catholic. My children will not be. I’m extremely religious. My religion is a mix of the Wicca, Native American and overall Pagan beliefs. I’ve read about every religion under the sun and none of them completely fit the bill totally in my mind. So what to tell the kids.

Tonight at the dinner table Emily turned to me and asked “When can I see God?”

It floored me. How do you answer that. Dylan thought the right answer was when you were dead you could.

I explained how God is everywhere around us. God made the sun rise and the night come. The trees and the animals. Dylan piped up that God made people. Emily chimed in that the stars must have been made by God. It was quite funny the little list that was going on.

But, when I told her that she couldn’t see God, she broke down with real tears and started crying that when she was born Mommy said she talked to God.

It was a really emotional moment and one I won’t forget for a while. Laura had the kids close their eyes and say what they thought God looked like. Dylan said “golden hair and a big red shirt” while Emily said “like the evil king.” (a short story we read the other night). When we told her that she had to stop talking to God and eat her dinner she got made because she likes “talking to God.”

Not your typical Chapman dinner table conversation for sure but one that was interesting. The whole time it felt strange, but good at the same time.

Funniest part was I told them that many different people had different names for God and I told them some of them. Emily thought about it and with a grin piped up, “I think I’ll just call him God.”

Children rock!