He Who Lives By the Fork...

            We read a children’s devotional every night before bed. Sometimes there is a little confusion and we have to discuss it. I love these times because what my children come up with is so original and off-the-wall that I have to really try to come up with answers. Cain and Able came up. Children of Adam and Eve. Cain killed Able out of jealousy. I thought that the parallels between the two brothers fighting and my twin sons fighting would spark some interest. Nope, that wasn’t it. “What day of the week was Able killed on?” I said that I didn’t know because the Bible doesn’t tell us. “Why doesn’t God want us to know what day of the week?” I said that it wasn’t that God didn’t want us to know but that it wasn’t an important thing to be worried about. My Adam was sure that it was a Tuesday; Drew thought surely it must’ve been a Saturday.  Then we got into hair color of the brothers. I thought that I could nail this one but I was wrong. I assumed middle-eastern would most likely have dark hair while Adam decided red and Drew thought it must be blonde. There was speculation as to how Abel was killed. Drew thought that it must’ve been with a big rock and Adam was fairly certain that Cain had thrown a fork at Able. I said that I was not sure what had happened exactly but I thought that I could safely rule out the fork scenario. We had gotten way off the subject so I said goodnight and shut off the light before I got in further over my head.