My Divine partner in Home Education

We had checked out books from the library.  It was time to return them the next day.  We had two that we hadn't explored one about hummingbirds and one about squirrels.  I chose the squirrels one.  My daughter Lizbeth was playing there.  As I began to read it, she came next to me to listen.  The book began with a story about a squirrel. 

The mother squirrel had built a next up in a tree.  Then she had 4 babies.  She would need to give them her milk for about a month until they grow hair and open their eyes.  One day, one baby squirrel fell off the tree and landed in the soft grass.  This would happen often because as they began to be more mobile, they would push each other.  Mother squirrel would make trips up and down the next to gather food.  When she came back, she noticed one baby missing.  She would hurry down, find her baby, make sure there are no cats around, pick it up with her teeth and carry it back up to the nest.

After we read in about two short pagest what a typical squirrel does through the year, we took a walk to our nearby park.   We went inside a WildLife Rescue center that is located in this park.  They have some resources for children to learn there.  After a minute of us being there, a family walked in with a baby squirrel they had found in their backyard.  The lady just took the squirrel inside without asking any questions.  They father tried to explain to the lady about the squirrel and was curious to know what they were going to do to rescue it.  He said, "it might have fallen from a big tree we have in our backyard, we found it just there.  I think it's a baby because the eyes looked like they are sealed?" he then asked wanted to get some knowledgeable information from the lady and maybe hoping his young daughter would learn something about squirrels.  But the lady didn't say anything.  "We'll see what we can do, and try to feed him," is all she said. 

This family was still there filling out a paper for the center when another lady with a haldful of kids walked in.  She appeared to be a handicap day care lady.  They had brought in a hummingbird.  They just handed it to the center lady in a hurry and she took the bird in.  They filled out the same paper and left to celebrate because they had saved a life.  That's what they said.

Right there I asked Lizbeth who witnessed everything,  "What would you have done, Lizbeth?" I asked, "If you would have found a baby squirrel in the ground?"  Without thinking she said right away, "bring it here."  Then I reminded her of the squirrel story we had just read.  Then she said, "Oh, yeah, we need to make sure no cats are around and wait for mama squirrel to come pick up her baby because she still needs to give it her milk and teach him how to gather food when he grows up a little more." 

"That's right,"  I said.  "Isn't it great to know, that's what's so wonderful about reading books, you learn so much.  That's why Proverbs says to acquire knowledge and wisdom.  That is important because then you would know what to do in any situation."

Lizbeth's face just lit up with a smile and I  knew God had divinely ordained this teaching moment.  I don't believe in coincidences but in divine interventions.  It was too perfectly timely planned that it had to be God.  He is so involved and so interested in teaching our children when we take this responsibility seriously.  We're not alone in teaching them. 

When I don't know how to teach them some truth, I must trust that as long as I'm faithful in giving them His Word, His Spirit will bring revelation to them in His Perfect Time.

Wow, this such a wonderful incident, that I am still pondering on different lessons the Lord may be teaching me too.   Any thoughts?