The Story
Everyone knows Mom has a job. Nobody has said what it is.
She leaves every morning with a big bag, a computer, a stack of papers, and high heels. So one day, on the ride home from school, a little girl finally asks Dad the question.
His answer: Mom helps people get out of jail.
That raises a bigger problem. Jail has guards. Guards are big and strong, and they do not let people out. The only guard story she knows is in her Bible, so she lands on the obvious explanation. Mom must put the guards to sleep, like the angel did for Jesus.
"No glowing?"
"No glowing."
Mom, it turns out, has a better answer. It involves a little card with her name on it, a judge, some promises, and a cookie trial held from the kitchen counter with a wooden spoon for a gavel.
- For ages 4 to 8, and for any grown-up who has ever been asked "what do you actually do?"
- Explains what a lawyer does at the jail and in front of a judge, in words a five-year-old can repeat
- Rereads the Easter morning guards from Matthew 28 together, the way a family would
- Lands where it should: not everyone in jail is a bad person, everyone deserves someone who will sit down and listen, and God already knows the rest
