Shoot The Lions

I hadn't intended to write every week about the sunbeams.  But they just keep giving me new material.  First off, we took them for our weekly walk to the drinking fountain.  They all saw the perils ahead and screamed, "Watch out for the walls."  This was without any reminder from us.  We tried to tell them to just remember that in our heads and not yell it out.

Later, I was sharing the story of Daniel in the Lion's den from the Old Testament.  In an attempt to engage the children and help them realize that being in a lion's den would be a not fun scenario, I asked what they would do if they were stuck with a bunch of lions.  One child rose his hand, because he clearly had the solution.  When I called on him he said, "shoot them."  I asked, "But what would you do if you didn't have a gun?"  The reply: "I would buy one."  Rather then try to have a logical discussion with a three year old about how there wasn't a gun shop inside the den and even if there was, the background checks and what not would take more than 24 hours, I just decided to move on.  I explained that Daniel's solution was to pray to the Lord.  Then I tried to relate it back to them and say that they could pray in difficult situations.  At this point another child rose his hand and said, "I don't have a gun."  Yet another child piped in: "I like trains".

Well, I guess this is just one more way that I'm like a sunbeam.  I'm sure the Lord looks down at me sometimes and says, "Why can't you just learn what I'm trying to teach you?"  My reply: "I like dinosaurs."