adding to apocrypha

on the way home tonight from Uncle Larry & Aunt Sally's Annual Square Dance (formerly the Leindecker holiday / event of the year -- surpassing even Christmas (I hypothesize its ability to articulate a symbolic grammar of nostalgia for farm life is the reason) some years -- this year just a good ol' time, less of a family time, possibly because of Grandma Cory's "passing."), Jaelyn and Addison had a little squabble so I turned around and told them a version of the story / interaction b/n Jesus & Andrew about how ongoing forgiveness must be...how living Jesus' teachings is HARDEST with our brothers.

JAELYN: Did they have sisters?

ADDISON: More! Tell more.

JAELYN: Tell a story about their sisters, Daddy.

ME: Not sure that they had any sisters. it's not really clear. [andrew resists the urge to here insert an editorial regarding feminist criticism of the biblical narrative.]

ADDISON: More! Sisters, JayJay!

JAELYN: Yeah, Dad. Tell a story about their sister, Jaelyn.

Of course this is all happening with lines over top of each other, so I'm still deciding on my response, when Jaelyn intervened.

JAELYN: "And their sister, Jaelyn, was talking to Jesus, and all of the sudden a SNAKE came up and wrapped around her leg. Jesus took a knife and he CUT the snake. He cut off its head. He cut off its tail. He cut all the parts of it."

Maybe I'm rearing a prophetess, because the way that she wound the Eden / serpent / He shall crush your head, you shall bruise his heel / Eve - Lillith imagery together was really quite impressive.

Anyone ready to name Jaelyn the next Ellen White or Joseph Smith...?

Hope your weekend included some...

peace~