My So-Called Homeschool

So sorry, I haven’t been keeping up here much lately. I’m not THAT busy with anything in particular, it just seems that once I’ve checked my e-mail, read a few blogs, and posted Leanne’s latest missive, my online time is up. Anyway, I hope you have been following her posts, she is having an INCREDIBLE time in Finland, both teaching the Word of God, and hearing Him through the children there. Here’s an exerpt from her last e-mail/post:

Yesterday our lesson was on birds - I wanted to talk about something they would see and connect with everyday. We took a look at an egg and I compared that to the cave where they laid Jesus. When first you see an egg you may not think it is beautiful or special. It does not look as though something is happening inside but rest assured, there is. It does not appear as though life would soon begin to move and crack the little egg but of course, it does. Just like it did with that cave where they laid Jesus. I’ll tell you what - I was amazed at what occurred during the lesson.

First, we began class by playing some games connected with the lesson, then we fed the ducks and we came back in where I let them guess what animal we might be talking about. I gave them enough clues and they finally guessed that it was a bird. Then, I jumped in my lesson - I told them I now wanted to tell them about something that happened to Gods’ son, Jesus. I like to ‘throw’ them off - keep them guessing and then later connect the two things together in order that they will not soon forget. Ha, yesterday - I was so beaten to the ‘punch line’ - When I was almost through with the lesson one of the little girls from this temple *please remember her mother said they had NEVER heard any stories from the Bible as far as she knew prior to our class. Okay, so, I’m telling the story and one of the little girls with eyes as big as you can imagine just couldn’t help herself. She interrupted me and began speaking so excitedly in Finnish to Roman. I’m certain you’ve guessed it but, she was telling him that the story of Jesus sounded a lot like when the baby birds come out of the egg! That the two stories are very similar. Oh, my - she connected it on her own. She taught the lesson - and she taught it much more eloquently than I ever could have. Roman and I were stunned. WOW! Do you think the Lord is calling to her or what? I am certain that she will never look at an egg or a bird the same ever again. She will probably forever remember our Lord and His promises when she looks up into the sky to watch the Barn swallows fly above the clouds. How incredible is our God!!! I can’t help but think she is going to share that story with her friends and her family. Can’t you just imagine her being in the school playground as a flock of birds fly overhead and she begins re-telling the story of our Lord. Or, perhaps her mom will call her in after she has baked some cookies one day and as she sits down to take the first delicious bite she looks over and sees a cracked egg still on the counter and again she re-tells His story. I don’t know how or when it will happen - I am just certain that it will. Again, can I just say, How incredible is our God!!

Wow. I’ve been a Christian all my life, and yet that analogy has never occured to me. I have tears through most of her posts — get a tissue and click over there now!