Kendra's Parable/Analogy

I have learned that Kendra is really good at analogies!  I mean, she thinks of things that I would never have thought of and amazes me!  Which is why she's in the gifted and talented program and I never was.  Clearly.

So tonight she had the lesson for family home evening.  She started by holding up a pen and a unsharpened pencil, and she asked me what the two things were and how they were different.  I said the obvious answers.  Then she said that the pen was like Jesus...it never needed to be sharpened.  It would always work perfectly.  Then she asked if I could use the unsharpened pencil to write.  Of course not.  She said then that the pencil was like us.   Then she had three little pads of paper that stacked on top of each other, the largest being at the bottom and the smallest at the top (like a pyramid).  She said the paper pads were like our life.  The bottom one was like us now, and she talked about righteous things we needed to do to "sharpen ourselves".  We listed things like prayer, scripture study, go to church, etc.  She then unveiled her electric pencil sharpener (under a blanket) and said those things are like the sharpener and proceeded to sharpen the pencil!  Wowie, I thought, that was GOOD.  The pencil wasn't totally sharp yet though.  Then she pointed to the middle pad of paper, and we talked about further things we needed to do.  Temple attendance, getting married in the temple, etc. were discussed.  Then she sharpened the pencil further.  Finally she said the top pad of paper was where we wanted to go, the celestial kingdom where we will live with Heavenly Father again and if we kept sharpening ourselves we'd get there. 

THEN, as if that wasn't good enough, she had both of our winter coats out and she handed me mine and put hers on.  She proceeded to say that the coat is like all those things we talked about that sharpened our pencil, and like the coat in winter that keeps us warm, those good things we do protect us from Satan and the things he wants us to do. 

Um...really?  So, I'm sitting there thinking maybe her primary teacher used these analogies or something and she wanted to share them. But no.  When I asked where she got her idea she said, "When I was thinking about what I wanted to do I just saw those things in my room and the idea came to my head."  And let me tell you, she thought of that idea in about 1 minute flat from the time she remembered that she was going to do the lesson tonight. 

Maybe I'm nuts, but I think that is pretty ah-mazing. 

**PS:  the funny part was that she went to write with the pen (the analagous Jesus) and it was dry.  She said with a laugh, "Jesus doesn't work.  Of course I mean the pen that is supposed to represent Jesus.  Jesus always works."  Ha!

**PSS:  Lest anyone think this is a result of the amazing job I am doing as a parent, trust me when I say Nay!  I thank the Lord for the Primary program and its teachers.  I do some, but not as much as I should, and they sure take up my slack in the most awesome way!