Young Tommy was especially close to his grandmother, joining her for church every Sunday. When his first confession approached, she explained gently: “You’ll tell the priest what you’ve done wrong, and he’ll guide you.” Nervous but brave, Tommy stepped into the booth. After admitting to stealing a pencil, saying a bad word, and fibbing to his mom, he added more mischievous confessions—throwing his sister’s Barbie out the window and smearing toothpaste on Grandpa’s dentures. The priest chuckled, then gave him a light penance. Outside, Tommy grinned at his grandmother: “Easy, Grandma. But I don’t think that man knows half the stuff I’ve done!”
Another boy, desperate for a bicycle, tried bargaining with Jesus in letters—first a year of good behavior, then a month, then a week. Frustrated, he finally snatched Mary from the nativity scene and wrote: “Dear Jesus, if you ever want to see your mother again…”
At a wedding, yet another boy calculated vows with confidence: “Four better, four worse, four richer, four poorer—that makes sixteen wives!”
Through innocence and mischief, children remind us to laugh, learn, and treasure their unique view of the world.
