Pierre Auguste Renoir Dance at Bougival I painting

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don’t know, Rufus, but it must be a part of His plan we will understand someday.”
“What good would it do Him?”
“Children, don’t dawdle. It’s almost school time.”
“What good would it do Him, Mama, to let the dogs in?”
“I don’t know, but someday we’ll understand, Rufus, if we’re very patient. We mustn’t trouble ourselves with these things we can’t understand. We just have to be sure that God knows best.”
“I bet they sneaked in when He wasn’t looking,” Rufus said eagerly. “Cause He sure wouldn’t have let them if He’d been there. Didn’t they, Mama? Didn’t they?”
Their mother hesitated, and then said carefully, “No, Rufus, we believe that God is everywhere and knows everything and nothing can happen without His knowing. But the Devil is everywhere too—everywhere except heaven, that is—and he is always tempting us. When we do what he tempts us to do, then God lets us do it.”
“What’s tempt?”