Abigail- a New Daughter of God
Sometimes I am amazed at the absolute and perfect way that God works things out, and the way that He can use us even when we feel inadequate and may not even be aware of our being used to the extent that He uses us. Every day at work I lead Jesus Time at the conclusion of preschool, where we have a Bible Story, prayer and memorize (as much as 3 year olds can) a verse. Now that we have 4 classes, I tend to forget what I have taught in each class, but I try to make sure that at least once each theme that we talk about having Jesus in our hearts, and about our salvation. Of course all of this is in a very simplified version for them to grasp it and not be totally confused. My main purpose in this is simply to plant seeds of faith, and to let them know that there is Someone out there who unconditionally loves them and for the kids who's parents so often seem to busy or too uncaring to take the time out for these precious gifts, that they can talk to God at anytime and anyplace.
Recently, I was sitting in the block area with several of he kids and just talking about Thomas the Train, building towers, and how little sisters can be so mean, but its okay cause they're just babies and don't know any better when Abigail told me something miraculous. "Miss Carrie, you want to know something?" Of course I said yes, but I wasn't really paying all that much attention, because at preschool I must continually be on the lookout for "communication problems" between the kids. Abigail went on unaware of my distraction, "Miss Carrie, I prayed and Jesus is in my heart, and someday you and me and Miss Melissa, we will be in heaven." This garnered my whole attention. I asked her a couple questions to see if it really seemed like she knew what she was talking about, and she sounded very sure of what she meant. My conversation with her ended because Austin, another preschooler, launched into a long narrative about how he not only had Jesus in his heart, but a couple of the Disciples, as well as Jesus's school, His big brother, and Jesus's parents lived in his feet. Don't think he got the concept quite as well as my Abbie.
Sometimes I am amazed at the absolute and perfect way that God works things out, and the way that He can use us even when we feel inadequate and may not even be aware of our being used to the extent that He uses us. Every day at work I lead Jesus Time at the conclusion of preschool, where we have a Bible Story, prayer and memorize (as much as 3 year olds can) a verse. Now that we have 4 classes, I tend to forget what I have taught in each class, but I try to make sure that at least once each theme that we talk about having Jesus in our hearts, and about our salvation. Of course all of this is in a very simplified version for them to grasp it and not be totally confused. My main purpose in this is simply to plant seeds of faith, and to let them know that there is Someone out there who unconditionally loves them and for the kids who's parents so often seem to busy or too uncaring to take the time out for these precious gifts, that they can talk to God at anytime and anyplace.
Recently, I was sitting in the block area with several of he kids and just talking about Thomas the Train, building towers, and how little sisters can be so mean, but its okay cause they're just babies and don't know any better when Abigail told me something miraculous. "Miss Carrie, you want to know something?" Of course I said yes, but I wasn't really paying all that much attention, because at preschool I must continually be on the lookout for "communication problems" between the kids. Abigail went on unaware of my distraction, "Miss Carrie, I prayed and Jesus is in my heart, and someday you and me and Miss Melissa, we will be in heaven." This garnered my whole attention. I asked her a couple questions to see if it really seemed like she knew what she was talking about, and she sounded very sure of what she meant. My conversation with her ended because Austin, another preschooler, launched into a long narrative about how he not only had Jesus in his heart, but a couple of the Disciples, as well as Jesus's school, His big brother, and Jesus's parents lived in his feet. Don't think he got the concept quite as well as my Abbie.
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