God Still Speaks Through Donkeys !

There you are, up on stage holding a huge oversized-overstuffed Eye-ore. “Good morning! This is a donkey…do you know what a donkey says? That’s right! EEE—aahh! This donkey’s name is Bradley, and he is going to tell you about the time Jesus rode into Jerusalem.”
The donkey-puppet begins to relay the story.
The workers/teachers/helpers sit back…they walk in and out with kids who have to ‘go’…in the back they chat about lunch, last night, and the kid who just picked his nose. Only the little ears are listening to the story. The workers have heard it a gazillion times, and besides, who has time to pay attention to a story about a donkey when Jimmy just ran out of the room?

At the end, the children are all waving palm leaves and singing “Hosanna” while the workers hover by waiting to grab the first kid who pokes someone with a palm leaf.

I am not sure when or where or even how we learn to cross the line… at what point we decide the Bible story is just for the kids. What did you teach this week? What did you hear this week? What did God teach you…or what were you so busy hoping the kids would grasp, that you forgot to grab it for yourself?

I know it can be chaotic when working with children, but He wants to speak; if we would just learn to listen

Show me Your ways, O LORD; teach me Your paths ~Psalm 25:4~