Tough Questions

I'm driving down the road the other day with my two boys in the back seat. We see some Christmas lights and Dylan gets excited. So, me, I started to tell him what Christmas is really about. I explained that it isn't about getting presents or lights or trees. It's really about how God sent his only son Jesus to the earth to be born as a baby just like Dylan. I tell him Christmas is really a big birthday celebration for Jesus. Dylan says to me, "Where's Jesus, Mommy?" I tell him Jesus is in heaven. He then asks, "Where's heaven?" I told him it is above everything we can see in the sky. It's far far away above the clouds and the sky and the moon and stars. Dylan says, "I can't see it". I re-explained that it was beyond what we could see but we just had to believe it was there because God tells us it is in the Bible and the Bible is true. He asks, "Do you want to go there some time?" I say, "Yes, I do". Dylan says, "Do you want to go there with me some time?" I said, "That'd be fantastic, that would be great, that's exactly what Mommy wants!" He says, "So, how do we get to heaven?" I said, "uh, uh, uh, well, you see you have to believe that Jesus was born and that he lived on this earth just like we do, and that he died on the cross to save us from the bad things we do, and then you have to believe he came back to life and went to heaven." So, that totally seems like a bad explanation but how do you tell a 2 year old what salvation is all about. I know this is just the beginning of the hard questions and they only get harder. I guess now I know why church is so important, even at this young age.