In his book Rewriting the Family Script, Roger Hillerstrom notes that young children are egocentric. This means that their view of the world is so small that they think they are the center of things. Hillerstrom says that as a child he and his family took a drive one evening. He remembers assuming that, as they traveled, the moon followed them home and then stayed there all night hovering over their house. Wouldn't that be nice? Your own personal moon?

An acquaintance whose last name is Steele told Hillerstrom that when she was a little girl and the church congregation sang the old hymn, "Trust and Obey," she didn't understand the line, "When we do his good will, he abides with us still." She thought it was, "When we do his good will, he abides with the Steeles." She thought the entire wo…