Re-post: The Passion from a kid ' s perspective

A story worth re-posting:A fairly standard component of my pediatric occupational therapy evaluations is to ask the child to draw a picture of themselves. This assessment technique provides an opportunity to evaluate the child ' s skill with writing and also is a functional assessment of their cognitive and perceptual ability.Sometimes kids draw things that just beg to be probed and questioned - as was the case recently. I watched intently as 6 year old Patrick drew a representation of himself, but then he began adding odd details to his picture. First he colored dark spots on his figure ' s hands and feet, and then added a row of X ' s across the forehead.I leaned forward and quizzically asked, " Patrick, what are these marks here? "He looked at me for a moment and then responded: " Jesus died for you, you know. He got nailed to a cross, in his hands and his feet. My Dad said that he had to wear prickers on his head and it made him bleed. "" Oh, " I replied, not knowing what else to say. I figured he was hearing about the Lenten season and Easter. " Keep drawing, Patrick, " I added. I was curious about what else he would add to his picture.I wasn ' t disappointed. Patrick added a few more shapes to his drawing. The first looked like a cross, so I asked him " And what is this? "Patrick didn ' t disappoint my curiosity. " It ' s the cross, Dr. Chris. That is where Jesus died. And this is all the people that wanted him to die, but now they are really sad. " He added a few sad ...
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