I've learned through epic failure that kids want to learn the fun way. Not through serious matters but through fun little things and getting a good base down before we hit them with big things like "What does God say about us moving across the continent?" kinda stuff.
Once when Sam had acquired a beautiful shiny quarter and it was held in his hand with his chubby sweaty fingers for probably a good 10 minutes before the glowing gumball machine made it's way into his vision. Funny how those things are always at the perfect height for little eyes ha. We took full advantage of the situation.
Letting go of all the knowledge I have from the chemicals and dyes in the gum I gave in. I asked Sam to ask Jesus what color the gum ball was going to be when it came out. "Blue!" he yelled emphatically. With a twist of the machine out came a blue gumball. Immediately his mouth was full of wonderfully horrible blue saliva and his cheek was twice the size. We were all shocked and excited so we asked him to try it again. "White!" he yelled! White is was. Yep another gumball in the other cheek. We decided to let him try one more time. "Yellow!" Out came a shiny wonderfully chemically ridden gumball and straight into his mouth. Despite the apparent choking hazard of three gumballs and a huge amount of colorful gumball juice in his mouth we all cheered.
We tried it one more time and he didn't get it right but we celebrated the success of listening and hearing God's voice. Also Benji (my husband) got a gumball so win win.
It was so fun and thus begun the journey and adventures of Sam listening and hearing the voice of God through treats.
Abbi Rodes
Love!
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