Caroline & Mr. David

This week we lost someone very special to our family, Caroline's Sunday School teacher, Mr. David. She loved that Mr. David so much! Caroline can be very hard for some people to win over due to her initial shyness. But Mr. David (and Mrs. Kim too!) greeted her at the door every Sunday morning, so excited to see her at church. They just loved on all those kids in her class as they taught them about Jesus every week. And for that, no one could help but love him back!

These pictures were taken on Halloween 2007 at Birchman's Trunk R Treat. I love these pictures (I've blogged them before) because it's the only time Caroline smiled the whole night! She was a little bit overwhelmed with all of the costumes and people and wouldn’t even talk to anyone. Until she saw Mr. David. When she saw him and he squatted down to talk to her, she had the biggest grin on her face!

The other night when I was uploading these pictures to print, Caroline saw them and very matter-of-factly said, “That’s Mr. David…he’s not coming to our class anymore. He went to Heaven to be with Jesus.” And very sympathetically I said, “Oh, I know honey. Does that make you sad?” And very bluntly she replied, “No.” A little surprised, I thought, “how weird that she’s not sad.” Then, the more I thought about it, in her 3 year old faith, she must be happy for him that he gets to go to Heaven and be with Jesus! And that’s not a sad thing at all! So then I said, “I guess Mommy is just sad that she will miss him so much, will you miss him?” Caroline, slowly pondering and nodding her head: “Yeah"