Last night the trashbag was too heavy for my young son, so he asked me to help him carry it out to the bin. On the way we passed the wading pool. It caught my eye because there were two balloon people bandits floating in it–balloons wearing swim goggles and bandannas, with faces marked on. Apparently my girls had been having fun.

My son saw me looking at it. “We played with God in the pool,” he said.

“What?”

“I splashed God in the pool.”

“What do you mean?” I asked sharply. I was on high blasphemy and irreverence alert.

“Because . . . because . . . because . . . [he repeats himself when he is trying to put together a long thought] because they said at Church that whatever we dos to other people, we dos to God.”

Our God is an awesome God.