First off, the pictures cracked me up! birds with grocery bags and shopping carts...ha. This is actually a common misconception many children have. Teaching 4th grade last year, I taught a unit on living things. This included planted and animals. We discussed, many times, what living things need to live. Food, water, shelter, air and warmth (even if come of these are very little). Now some of these could go more in depth, like air with water plants and animals that get CO2 and O from water and such) but it's rather simplistic. I couldn't tell you, after talking about it and sending home a study guide, how many students put clothes down on their test. And my response what kind of the flowers with clothes on.
We forget that all of the things we need are already provided for us, we just have to find /gather them!
The pictures are super cute for this one!
ReplyDeleteThis one might be my favorite so far! Adam ~ "The song is the joy of the Lord, and the Lord means for us to be joyful and happy. Evangelizing shouldn't be about spreading religion, it should be about spreading the joy and love of God. The joy of the Lord is our strength."
I also really liked the song analogy - I think it does a great job of translating the feeling of knowing God's love and purpose for us.
So far I'm finding the Old Testament stories to be more enlightening than the New Testament stories - I'm not sure if that's because I'm more familiar with the gospels or if it's because most of the stories have already been pretty kid-friendly to begin with. This story is a pretty perfect example of that - the examples of birds and flowers, combined with the pics, makes the lesson really easy for kids to understand.
The sermon on the mount is probably the most famous of Jesus's teaching. It is the new testament's response to the law of Moses. I find it very inspired that it boils the whole thing down to -- We shouldn't worry because God takes care of us.
ReplyDeleteTo contrast with the lie of the snake - that God doesn't love us. Sin is believing that and taking control of our own lives. Taking what we think we need. Breaking the commandments, essentially is that -- not trusting God to take care of us.
And yet, so elegantly written with the fun pictures. I also very much enjoyed this story.