"Mommy, is Jesus' last name Christ?"

Mommy has a Phd in linguistics

And wants to say

That Christ is an anglicized version 

Of the Greek word Xristos,

Which was borrowed from the Egyptians

Who had gotten it from Sumeria,

And that the Ancient Hindu word Krishna

Carries the same name

And the very same meaning!

Mommy longs to explain the phrases:

Doxology, logos, hoc est meus corpus,

Anointed one!

She longs to impart

Something gloriously divine!

But should Mommy just say,,

"Yes, Dear, Christ is Jesus' last name,"

Or should Mommy tell her child

That the Life that he, himself, carries on the inside,

Even as a child, (especially as a child!)

Is brighter, too, than a thousand suns,

And that the kingdom of kindness and insight

Dwelling within everyone who lives and loves,

Is the very anointed kingdom of god 

In any language, in any time

That Life and Love and Peace and Joy are let to reign.

Mommy just smiles, and stops what she's doing

To give her child a big hug 

And says, "i don't know, Love,

What do you think?"

-jenn