A three-year-old boy was with a woman whose home was a second
home to him. They were in the flower-garden. Seeing a crocus in
bloom, and remembering that the previous fall he had put the
bulb into the ground (as one of his age so often does things, by
the help of others), he asked, “Did I make that flower grow?”
When told that God sent the rain and the sunshine which made it
grow, he insisted that he had had a part in the process, and
finally dropt the subject by saying:
“God and I make the flowers grow.”--A. B. BUNN VAN ORMER,
“Studies in Religious Nurture.”
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=Children’s Thoughts About God=--See ANTHROPOMORPHISM.