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Twitter| Luke: | [age 8] "I am not going to school today." |
| Me: | "Yes, you are." |
| Luke: | "No. I can't! I can't go to school today." |
| Me: | "You can't? Is something preventing you from going?" |
| Luke: | "I just can't." |
| Me: | "Did someone build a thousand-foot wall between here and school that we can't get around?" |
| Luke: | "No." |
| Me: | "Is there a moat full of hungry alligators around the school that will eat you if you try to get in?" |
| Luke: | "No, that's not what I mean." |
| Me: | "Has your school been mysteriously transported to the surface of Mars?" |
| Luke: | "No, none of that. I mean, I just can't go." |
| Me: | "I don't understand why. When you say 'can't', it sounds like you mean it is physically impossible. You know, like 'I can't fly up in the sky like a bird just by flapping my arms' -- that kind of 'can't'." |
| Luke: | "Well... technically nothing is impossible." |
| Me: | "Nothing?" |
| Luke: | "That's what the Bible says. All things are possible with God." |
| Me: | "Really? /All/ things? Even flying up into the sky?" |
| Luke: | "All things. Even flying." |
| Me: | "Just so I understand: nothing at all is impossible?" |
| Luke: | "Right. Nothing is impossible if you have God's help." |
| Me: | "So you /can/ go to school today?" |
| Luke: | "Oh, not that. Some things are only possible at certain times. And right now is one of those times when going to school really is impossible." |
| Me: | "I thought you said /nothing/ was impossible with God." |
| Luke: | "God has a time for everything, Dad." |
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