Big
Bedtime Theology with the 4 yo... 4 yo: God is big. Me: How do you know God is big? 4 yo: He made all the planets! Children are very interested in size. They want to know how big something is, they want to tell you how big they are. My four-year-old has announced to me that he is a little big kid, not a big little kid. The order of the adjectives matters to him. My older kids try to cheat a little when we measure their height along the kitchen pantry wall. They stand on their tiptoes, eager to be just a bit bigger. This longing for big-ness, for more, for extra, seems to be part of human nature. See: the super-size menu at the McDonalds of my childhood. A quick Google search tells me that menu was discontinued in the early 2000s, but other "big" things have taken hold in the US cultural imagination. We want a bigger following on Instagram, bigger social media presence, bigger kitchens, bigger stores. A 2010 Time magazine article is titled: " Cars, Breasts and Ho...
