Ash Wednesday {Theology according to Jax}

We had our Ash Wednesday service at church.  I had planned to go by myself.  It didn't start until 7 o'clock and that is when it is bewitching hour with Julie (aka bedtime!) and I was pretty sure that Jax didn't want to go. 

I was wrong.

Once I told him that I was going to church and he found out I was getting a cross on my head, he wanted to come!  And then he told me he remembered last year where Justin and I had crosses on our heads and he thought it was a T and wanted an A on his head.  I was very surprised he remembered that!

And so Jaxson and I went to service.  And he was so good!  He was eagerly awaiting for his cross on his head.  And when time came, he was such a big boy!

When we got back to our pew, he looked at me and told me I looked funny in my cross!  Ha!

After service, when we were walking out to our car, Jax asked me about Jesus being on the cross. 

When we have read the Bible to him, I give him the bare bones story of the cruxification.  He knows that Jesus was on a cross with nails and that it hurt.  In walking to the car, he asked me if the nails hurt Jesus.  I told him yes.  And then he said that he didn't want to go on the cross with the nails.  That it would hurt him.  I told him that he didn't have to because Jesus did that for him.  He seemed relieved.  I think he was just trying to figured out the reason why we have the cross on our heads!

And when we got home, he proudly showed his cross to Daddy and Julianne!  I was glad to share the time with him, but I'm not sure I know any other 5 year old that get excited about having a cross on his head!