Joshua's Song

He first sang it at the dinner table a few weeks ago.  Something like:


Da circle (click click)

Decision (click click)

He rocked his shoulders, repeated the couplet a few times, clicked his tongue rhythmically.


"Josh, what song is that?"

"My own song."


"Where it did it come from?"

"I made it up!"


The circle?  Decision?   It seemed. . .ominous, but the rhythm of it, his confidence in chanting it. . .it seemed somehow professional.


"Wait, sing it again?  What is it?"

Da circle (click click)

Decision (click click)


I cycled through recent memory.  In data collection of material related to what is on your 5-year-old's radar, it is best to set the search parameters for about 2 weeks.

What has been going on in the last two weeks?
Oh.

Uh. . .yeah. . .Gemma has been working hard to memorize a passage out of Ephesians.  It's not one that I'd have chosen for an 8-year-old.  Though it does have that key verse about being saved through faith and not through good works. . .  it also features some fairly. . .adult content.


"Hey, Josh, sing it one more time."

Da circle (click click)

Decision (click click)


Laughter.  The kind I should have stifled.  The kind that felt victorious, because I had figured out the puzzle. 

Bryan hadn't yet.  "What?  What is it?"  He was laughing a little already in anticipation.


And it's not that I want to build it up.  Maybe I've already ruined it for you. . .  

He was singing:
The circum (click click)
The cision (click click)

The circum (click click)
The cision (click click)