A-Haa! Moments

It was an a-haa! moment. Now I understand what keeps teachers teaching.
Yesterday I sat with two grandsons trying to help with two school projects due this week. One was due today – the other is due on Thursday. How do these things get left until the last minute? Not much has changed in 30 years of our school adventure.

The topic was about Urban and Rural. Grandpa was being interviewed about where I used to live. I was asked many questions and they collected a sizeable bit of information. The home I had lived in when I was six years old was contrasted to what they live in now. I carried water to make it running and the toilet was outside. The look on their faces as they listened to a “dinosaur” give account of his boyhood was almost too funny.

How do you get a point across? What can you do to help them “see” what you are talking about?

Tadaa! Use “Google Earth” that’s how. Both boys are able to handle a computer very well. They are 8 and 7 years old. They know Google Earth as a program and use it to fly around the world for fun. Their knowledge of geography is amazing already. Remember the two numbers 8 and 7.

As we zoomed in to the little house in Regina, one of them exclaimed, “There’s the railroad track! – WOW!” All of a sudden grandpa’s stories came alive. It is true after all! That special A-Haa! Too place in front of me. They were reassured by what I had told them.

Personal Application…
I was reading the Bible the other day and it happened again. I became to the 8 and 7 year old. My Heavenly Father had told me the story and then it became true. A-haa!

I am a little boy all over again. It is so good to discover again what God is saying to your heart. Homework is good.

Have you ever thought about how God sees it all? He has the original Google Earth program.

I need to think on this one a while.

~ Pastor Murray ~