Jake, Hannah and I were talking yesterday and we were teasing Hannah that she was asleep.  She kept saying she wasn't asleep and dreaming, but with every reason she gave Jacob and I would come up with an excuse of why she could still be asleep.  That lead to our conversation of living.

Hannah said, "what if our whole life was someone's dream?"  I'm sure you and I have thought that before, but I wasn't expecting it to come out of a 6 year olds mouth.  So this conversation lead to my question of, "how do you know you're alive?"

Hannah answered the way most Christians answer their second birth, "because I was born."  In fact she commented about her passport (we were in the car, and since we have to have it to cross the border the kids are very familiar with what they are and what they stand for).  Jacob however was quiet.  When he finally gave his answer of how he knew he was alive it was very real.

"Because I am sad, because I have pain."

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