The missing piece

The other night I was reading a Bible story to Caroline before bed and it mentioned Jesus’s disciples. It had never occurred to me that maybe she wouldn’t know what “disciple” meant, so I asked, “Do you know what a disciple is?”

“No.”

“Well, it’s kind of like a friend. “

“Oh, okay”

“The disciples were Jesus’s friends while he was here on earth.”

“WHAT?! YOU MEAN TO TELL ME THAT JESUS WAS ON EARTH?!”

I feel almost certain that I have mentioned that detail at some point in the last five years.