New take on the Atonement

So yesterday was stake conference. Aside from being the normal wonderful stuff we were able to have a 41 stake conference with a video feed from SLC with Pres. Monson and Elder Ballard amoungst those giving the talks. Anyway as part of the video feed before anything started they had video of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir singing. On a portion of the singing, pictures were put on the screen depicting the story of Christ. This was nice considering we had to be there really early because Kevin was ushering. I had just come back from taking the kids for a walk to get their wiggles out and we were sitting there quietly looking at the pictures on the screen when a picture came up of Jesus when he met Mary in the garden, right after being resurrected. Enter the take of my 3 year old daughter. To understand where she is coming from and not to judge me as a delinquant mother on teaching her about Christ you need to understand our previous conversations about Christ and the resurrection and atonment. "Mommy, Jesus has boo boos?" "Yes honey...." "Make it better mommy!" "Sweety these are special boo boos...." "Make it better mommy!" (now close to tears because I was failing to act in a expidited manner) "Meggie, these boo boos are different. These...." "Make it better mommy!" (now full tears errupt) So mommy for the time being put band-aids on all our board books with Jesus's boo boos... at the direction of my 3 year old. Progress a few months to the future. "Mommy are Jesus's boo boos better?" Aha! I thought another teaching opportunity! " No sweety these boo boos are different because they won't get better right now. You know when....." "Are they scabs now?" "Well, they...." "Mommy, look I have scabs! They aren't boo boos anymore they're all better." Sigh I guess we'll wait another month or so before trying again. Progress a month later to Easter time. I was going to get through the Story of the resurrection. "Look this is Jesus after the bad men hurt him, he died" "OH NO! He's sick. Make him better mommy!" "Sweety, it's ok because he got better. (at this point really not wanting to explain death) When he got sick they put him in a place called a tomb." "Oh look mommy! A dragon cave!" "Um well it's a cave but there aren't any dragons there. That's where they put Jesus." From there we talked about the resurrection and how Mary came and couldn't find Jesus etc. Progress to yesterday. A picture (actually the same picture) of Jesus coming to Mary in the garden came up on the big screen. Megan quasi yells out "Look mommy! There's Jesus and the fairy. She made his boo boos all better!" Proud mommy. Yep. That's my girl. *snort* "Um, that's Mary." "Oh"