Our kids are too timid to venture to the front of the sanctuary for kid’s Bible time. They hang out with us, but they still take it all in. Today, the woman was telling a story that talked about ducks. She brought out her decoy and showed the kids. She told them that it wasn’t real and that was part of what it meant to be a decoy. Then she went on so explain that hunters use them and put them in the water to get the other ducks to come so they could . . .
She trailed off there and it was apparent that she had taken this story a direction she hadn’t intended, but she had the little innocent children waiting to hear why the hunters used the decoy. She had this very apologetic and pained look on her face as she announced to the children and the congregation that hunters use the decoys to attract other ducks to they could “shoot them”. The adults all started to chuckle. Not that it was funny to go duck hunting, but we knew that she didn’t mean to get into that with these preschoolers! She had another point entirely and did a great job of wrapping it all together.
On the way home, Ethan saw a bear carved out of wood. He told me it was a “decoy”. “Mom, that means it’s not real. It’s fake.”
