God and Money

Tonight on the way to church, Sheinah initiated a conversation about money that turned into a conversation about God. The conversation is recapped below as it was remembered to have transpired between Melissa and Sheinah. I am pretty sure that the conversation started because we gave her some spare change to put in the offering at kids church.

Sheinah: Mom, where does money come from?
Daddy and I get money from working.
Sheinah: How?
Well, we get hired by someone to do a certain job and then they pay us money for doing that job. Sheinah: And then you use that money to buy stuff for kids?
Sometimes, but we were thinking that you are getting old enough to earn your money.
Sheinah: What do you mean?
Well, we would give you a job to do and then give you money for doing the job.
Sheinah: I could help you do pharmacy jobs!
Yes, you could help at the pharmacy.
Sheinah: What do we do with our money?
Daddy and I spend it in three ways.
Sheinah: wait I know, we use money to buy stuff.....what are the other things we do mommy?
We use it to buy stuff we need. We save up money for bigger stuff like we want to buy a new car so we are saving up money for that and then we give money to God like how you give offering at church.
Sheinah: We need big stuff like a new house and a new car and a new pet.
What kind of pet do we need.
Sheinah: A pony...so do we throw the money up in the air (to get it to God)?
No, but that would be a good idea. We get the money to God by giving it to church. We also give money to people in other places who don't know about God yet. (Travis steps in), we give money to a little boy in Africa who is poor and his parents don't have a job.
Sheinah: His parents should get a job
Yes, so we give money to help them have a job, and food, and the little boy gets to go to school and learn about Jesus.
Sheinah: My school doesn't teach anyone about Jesus or God.
No, they don't, we go to church to learn about Jesus.
Sheinah: We like to pray for people who are sick or sad or at the hospital or if they got hurt or if they got eaten or if they have a cavity in their teeth.
If they got eaten?
Sheinah: Eaten is when an animal has big teeth and then it bites you

And then we arrived at church. How's that for a lesson about money and God.