i never thought i would be spending large portions of my day searching for crickets and grasshoppers in my backyard with my little girl, but alas, that's exactly what i've been doing for months now. i never thought i would learn about God's provision and his love via a super-sized flying cricket, but recently i did.
i caught a mammoth flying cricket. ( it landed right in front of me and my net.) but it escaped from the insect habitat when i tried to free a another cricket. emmy forgave me, but she was disappointed and asked me to catch another one. well, if you've ever seen one of these things you know that they are difficult to catch. afterall, they can fly. so after a half hour of searching, i half-heartedly prayed for a stupid cricket to fly into my net. guess what happened a minute after i prayed. yep, an enormous cricket flew right into my net. oh me of little faith!
emmy was thrilled to have a winged pet cricket. and i was thrilled to tell her that God does hear us and answer our prayers even when they seem ridiculous. God gave her the cricket. her response, "wow, so God told the cricket to jump into your net for me?"
"absolutely"
5 comments:
wow! what a terrific opportunity to teach her about God's faithfulness in simple things!
Very cool...how is kindergarten going? Has your dear one started to do anything yet?
I wish I was teaching kindergarten sometimes...but then again some of my students act like kindergarteners, so I guess there's not too much difference.
this week they are working on the letter N, the sight word "a", writing the numbers 0 and 1. mostly, they been working on becoming a "community" of law-biding kindergarteners.
sounds like your having a lot of fun. :-)
Not really, but that's a long story. I don't know if I will stay on next year. I need prayer. It has been hard.
This is such a wonderful story!
I'm so glad God gave you and em another cricket.
:)
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