Because Mommies Know Everything

When little man was about four years old, he had a world of questions … Mommy, why does peanut butter always have to go with jelly, why not ketchup? Why do we have skin, is it to keep our bones from falling out? Why does Spiderman get to climb walls, and I can’t?

Well, of course, Mommy always had the answer, but he soon began to ask how I knew all those answers.

“Simple,” I’d reply. “Because mommies know everything.” This statement always created tiny giggles or a wondrous smile, that said “Wow, Mommy … that’s so cool! You are so cool!”

One time, when I was visiting little man at daycare, he actually introduced me to his friend by saying, “This is my mommy … she knows eeeevrything.” Oh, yeah … umm … oh boy.

Sure enough,  I guess he began bragging on his “mommy’s knowledge” a bit too much while in his fathers custody, because the next time I picked him up, he announced that mommy in fact did not know everything … his daddy told him so.

Huh. Well, didn’t that just burst my bubble? Though I knew my ex-husband was right, I didn’t really know everything, I felt deflated. As I pouted in the front seat thinking how to become magical once again in my son’s eyes, his little voice came forward with, “But Mommy, I know who does know everything.” 

“Oh yeah?” I reply, waiting for him to say a name that will send my stomach in swirls. “Who’s that?”

“God! God knows everything.”

Moral of the story … ex-husbands, or people in general, can “burst your bubble,” but that’s not important in life. What is important is the knowledge your kids obtain (and in turn, every now and then, teach you.) I was instantly put back in my place after that announcement. Little man was right. I don’t know everything, but God does.

I think about how I felt, when my son doubted my knowledge, when he no longer trusted what I was telling him, and I wonder … is that how God feels when His children begin to question Him? And, if God does know everything, maybe we should be finding out what He knows.

Maybe, instead of focusing and studying Facebook or Twitter, following the latest trends, hashtags or movie stars, or memorizing baseball or football stats, we should be putting our efforts into gaining knowledge that will help us make wiser choices, build better realationships.

I do still pray that my son will learn how to read, how to do addition and subtraction, how to play soccer and baseball well, that he excels at piano lessons so much that someday he will become a rockstar (in the Praise Band at church!) … but above all else, if there was only one thing for him, for any of our children to learn, I want them to know that they can trust God no matter what and that all the answers are right there ... in His word.