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“Mommy, what do coins and knees have to do with people getting along at church?”
“Coins and knees? Hmmm… Where did you hear that coins and knees have something to do with people getting along?”
“Mrs. Gregory, my Sunday School teacher said so. She said we need coins and knees to enjoy being with our friends at church.”
“She did, huh? Well, let’s see if I can guess what she meant. Coins are a way to give money to the church so we can have a place to gather and we use our knees when we kneel to pray and we should pray together. So maybe giving coins and kneeling on our knees brings us together so we all get along better. Does that sound something like what Mrs. Gregory said?”
“NO! No MOM! She said we need to have coins and knees so that we can have friendships at church.”
I am baffled. What is my sweet daughter trying to share with me? Coins and knees? Maybe she misunderstood. Once she asked me to sing the “Laundry Song” about the sheets. It took me a while to realize that she thought “Bringing in the Sheaves” was “Bringing in the Sheets”. Then there was the time she thought God’s name was Art based on the first line of the Lord’s Prayer. What can she be trying to say this time?
”Honey, did your teacher say anything else? Did she teach you anything else about coins and knees?”
“NO MOM! All she said was that we really need coins and knees to have something called fellowship that means we are getting along together and having fun at church!”
Coins and knees.
Get along together.
Fun at church.
Fellowship.
Why does this odd combination sound vaguely familiar to me?
Coins and knees.
Coins and knees.
Coins and knees.
Wait a minute. In college we did a study on Christian fellowship and we learned a new word. Well, it wasn’t a new word, just a new word for us. Oh, yes, now I remember. Koinonia. I guess to a seven year old, koinonia indeed sounds like coins and knees.
“Sweetie? I think I found your answer….”
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