"Will you read me the whole Bible?"
"Sure. Now? I think I have one right in here." I did. I asked if I should start with the best parts or just start at the beginning.
She ignored that, and said "Are you going to trick me and read Lord of the Rings?"
"Don't you think you would know the difference?"
"I don't know."
(more commentary ensued)
She might or might not come back for more, but she made more intelligent comments and asked more questions that actually meant something than some people would be willing to ask in a year of Sunday School. And she made connections with Lord of the Rings, homeschooling, language, journalistic integrity, Strongbad, poetry and the Wizard of Oz.
The image used to be on the Metropolitan Museum of Art site, and linked on my page, but they let theirs slide away. I lifted a copy from the Wayback Machine at the Internet Archive. The artist wasn't identified, but the subject is Toah, an ancestor of the prophet Samuel.
