Deep Thinking

Today on the way to pick up Brandt from school, Blythe asked, "Mom, did Jesus have a wife?"

What?!  Where is my five year old coming up with this stuff?  I was in the middle of texting a friend, but I realized that such a question warranted a serious reply, so I put the phone away and answered.  We don't have any record in the scriptures about Jesus being married and having a wife, but we think he probably did.
Then Blythe asked, "Why don't we hear anything about Heavenly Mother?"

Wow!  Two major questions, one right after the other.  Again, I explained that we don't know much about Heavenly Mother because there isn't any mention of her in the scriptures, but we know Heavenly Father is the father of our spirits, and we must have a mother because that is the order of things.  She loves us, just like our moms here on earth love us, and we will know her when we see her again.

And then, as if these two questions weren't enough, Blythe asked, "How did Heavenly Father create our spirits?"

I explained about our always existing and then being organized in spirits that looked just like us, how we all lived with Heavenly Father, and then how we now have the chance to have a body and be on earth to learn to choose the right so we can return to Him again.

This was pretty serious stuff to be on the mind of our five year old.  As Kent pointed out, when he was five, he was trying to figure out why Jesus was a tumbleberg (another name for a tumbleweed) and why they were singing about (he misheard the lyrics to "Jesus Once of Humble Birth").  I don't think we're going to be able to slip a lot past our sweet Blythe.