The Candlelight Processional at Epcot is really worth seeing. It’s an outdoor concert featuring an orchestra, the Disney singers, and a massed choir. There’s a narrator at the center of the whole thing telling the Christmas story. The narration is delivered a couple lines at a time, separated by Christmas music.<\/p>\n
The only odd thing is that the narration of the Christmas story goes well beyond Christmas, doing a quick summary of Christ’s life.<\/p>\n
This year, I was holding N when the narrator said “He was crucified and died…”<\/p>\n
The little guy had been cuddling into my shoulder. When he heard this, he straightened up, looking at me wide eyed. <\/p>\n
“Jesus died?!?” he whispered urgently.<\/p>\n
He’s only two, and we haven’t gotten into that whole thing. In fact, I would have been okay with waiting another two years.<\/p>\n
I looked at him blankly, trying to find something to say. <\/p>\n
He put one hand on either side of my face and moved his face closer to mine to make sure I was listening. “Jesus Died?”<\/p>\n
“Yes… but he got better.”<\/p>\n
He looked at me suspiciously, and then nodded and put his head back on my shoulder.<\/p>\n
Someone should do a compilation of lame answers given by unprepared dads. I’m sure it would sell millions of copies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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