Some Like it Hot

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There’s a little one staying with us now who describes everything unpleasant as “hot!”

Prickly pine needles, cold ice cubes, cat scratches, and the oven are all “hot.” 

At least when I say, “Hot!” about the electric fence, she gets the picture and stays away. 

I was thinking of her description of danger this weekend as I taught the book of Jonah at our children’s worship time. There’s a lot of danger in the book of Jonah: tempests at sea, looming shipwrecks, drowning, be...