This morning, Scott got up to go to work. I was sort of half awake and heard him get in the shower. After he made it downstairs, I jolted awake and realized that I forgot to move Pointy, our elf on the shelf.
If you've never heard of "Elf on the Shelf" how it works is that each Christmas season, your elf (which you get to name yourself) comes to your house along with the decorations. It spends the day watching your behavior. Every night, after you go to bed, using elf magic, your elf flies to the North Pole and reports to Santa who was naughty and who was nice. The next morning, he hides in a new place. If he comes in contact with human hands, he loses his magic and will not be able to fly home.
I laid awake wondering how I would talk to Scotty about why Pointy didn't move last night. What questions would he have? How could I explain WHY I was moving Pointy in the first place. Now, my kid is really smart, I mean REALLY... I figured if he asked, I would explain to him about how Pointy is just a representation of the actual elf who comes to our house to make sure the kids are good...or maybe, I would tell him that its a representation of how Santa keeps an eye on kids, that Pointy is a daily reminder to be good. Oh, I know, I thought to myself...I could use God to help explain it...we never SEE God, but we know he's there, we talk to him, he talks and acts through us. Scotty went to a fairly God-fearing pre-school, I thought he'd understand that.
Then my stream of consciousness took over
That got me thinking about God, and how we view God, it made me think of a conversation Scott and I had about how to reconcile God (the unseen) and Science (the seen) - It's quite simple really, God is the ultimate Scientist. I mean, how can he NOT be??? He created humans to have fingerprints!! How cool are they? Not only do the swirls on your fingers distinguish you from every other person on the planet, they help you keep from dropping wet glasses as you put them in the dishwasher. Not a day goes by that I don't give thanks for my fingerprints. 
AND...God gave us the ability to MAKE PEOPLE! A female baby has all the eggs she's ever going to have...even though she won't need them for many years, there they are, just waiting to become something else.
Then I thought about...what if God wasn't just a scientist, but a mad scientist?? It's not quite the matrix, but what if we're all robots, some experiment that worked...how genius is that?? He created things that are thinking, breathing, replicating, and when they (we) get worn out, or damaged, we die. Over time, his little creatures figured out ways to extend life, heal some of the damage that may incur. And when we do die, we even figured out how to dispose of ourselves. If that isn't proof of a divine being, I don't know what is.
And you know what, Scotty didn't even ask about Pointy. SMH.
