Then we are off to options...playing handbells, doing our homework, singing...
...and creating.
We head home, my youngest and I, and I wonder if they are getting the things their teacher is teaching them. So many times I have gone home and wondered if any of the children got it. Did they here His message?
So I test my son..."what did you learn in Bible class today". He says, "We learned about Moses." My shoulders sag because we learned about Noah not Moses. And so I say, "Tell me about the story". He begins to tell me the entire story of Noah...he just got the names wrong. He tells the story of animals coming two by two, and rain for forty days and "forty weeks". He tells the entire thing right up to the part where God makes the promise and puts the rainbow in the sky. And we get to talk more about how long that promise has been made and kept.
You've heard it said it takes a village. In a way it does...God created us to live in relationships with one another having one purpose. Sometimes we plant, other times we water...God promises to make it grow.
"...Only servants, through whom you came to believe—as the Lord has assigned to each his task. I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. So neither the one who plants nor the one who waters is anything, but only God, who makes things grow. The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and they will each be rewarded according to their own labor. For we are co-workers in God’s service; you are God’s field, God’s building."
1 Corinthians 3: 5-9
