Early literacy can be a mixed blessing - being able to read I missed out on the dancing furniture, the unbuilt arks and even the happy salad (Lettuce with a gladsome mind), but I read and re-read the verse of "Just for Today" which goes "Let me no wrong or idle word unthinking say (that bit was fine), set thou a seal upon my lips, just for today". Okay, God can do everything, so the general idea wasn't too much of a problem - it was the details ... like, would the seal be balancing a beach ball on its nose? How big would it be? Would I be able to breathe? ...
A childhood belief about hymns
others believed things like this
- I used to believe...If you ate sunflower seeds you could read somebody's mind...LOLAnon
- For the longest time I was sure my cat could read my mind.Anon
- When I was little I would always say in my mind, "I know you can read my mind", just in caseAnon
- I used to think that an imbecile was some type of seal, before knowing that it meant someone stupid.Anon
- I used to think the Back Street Boys were black. I also thought Seal was a boy band. — Tufty
- I used to think that a sea lion was a hybrid of a seal and a lion.Anon