Me - "They don't. There is a box the body goes in and that box is buried in the ground and the stone is there just to tell us where the box is".
Peter - "I thought heaven was the sky."
Me - "It is. In that box is just the body, not their spirit."
Peter - "What's a spirit?"
Me - "Well it's the thing that makes you YOU. So see my hand how it's moving? That's just my body - that has nothing to do with my mind or my thoughts or my relationships. Weird huh?"
Peter "So, it's like they are passes away but they think they're not".
Me - "Exactly".
Peter - "When police officers are done working and go home, do they leave the lights on their station for the bad guys who are sleeping there?"
Me - "Well, when they home, new police officers come to work b/c the bad guys are there and they need to be ready".
Peter - "They need to be ready for more bad guys?"
Me - "Yep"
Peter - "Why can fireman sleep while they are work? On our field trip we saw they have beds".
Me - "Hmm? Well, I guess b/c they are guarding anything at their station? I'm not sure".
Peter - "I'd rather be a police officer even though I can't sleep at work".
