Do We Trust God

Happy November to you all!

In ONE week I am going to see my husband again! This time we get more than one perfect day but 5.  I am so excited that I am trying to stay calm and take one day at a time.  I am so thankful that it is November, this is Dans last month of training only 3.5 weeks left. So proud of him. This also means that we will find out where Dan is being stationed. This is such BIG news. It is a hard thing to wait and wait on a decision to be made FOR you. But I know that God is in control of all of these things! The truth makes the "hard" things so much more simple.  Having a perspective of truth sure changes what Dan and I see when we look at things like that. We are not sure, but we think that by Thanksgiving we will know where we are to move.

This past Sunday, yes my hopes was to write this post many days ago haha, in my 3 year old Sunday school we started our new story about Abraham and Sarah.  For the sweet 3 year olds the way we tell stories are simple and to the point, few words, and big picture books.  :) and fun activities that help us learn our lesson. I sure learned some things too.  Our verse for the week was "We trust God." For a craft project I had each kid trace there 2 shoes on a paper and then color away, always adding stickers too! Then we learned as we colored that a man named Abraham trusted God so much that he followed him.  We learned that our foot prints on our paper remind us that we CAN trust God enough to follow him.  Even into a new place, away from things we have been around our whole life. We learned that the man packed up all of this things and took his family into a new land. He knew nothing about where he was going all he knew was God called him.

We did an activity next. Starting at one corner of the room we found a star. We all stood there in a group and saw many color circles in front of us. They didn't seem to make a path but we followed them one at a time as a group.  We had yarn with us and each time we made it to a circle we taped down the yarn. After many spots we came to the end, an X to mark the spot! We turned around and looked, we were all very excited! As 3 year olds are most of the time, at the smallest things, we saw the path, we saw where we walked and where these circles lead us. It was such a perspective reminder for their 23 year old teacher that was not expecting that this activity she made up was going to teach her anything.  I trust God enough to follow him, and one of the reasons I can trust him is seeing the amazing yarn in my life, and in the lives of others like Abraham, All of the places he called me to and was FAITHFUL in!

So today lets practise the adapted 3 year old bible verse, We TRUST God, and we trust him enough to follow him! Maybe you need to even make a foot print craft to remind yourself. :)
Much love, Mrs. Erika Hallbeck
As you TRUST him~
Romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the Holy Spirit.