God's Blessing in Preschool

This morning I, strangely enough, can say that I was privileged to teach in Preschool during the first service at our House (Koinonia).  As Previous weeks have gone by and this weekend has approached, I have almost (though only sort of) dreaded teaching in Preschool.  Today I did the welcoming (rules, and worship) and the craft.  Most of the precious Sundays, I have ben anxious all morning and have been very nervous as my 'teaching' time was approaching AND just being in with the kids.  However this morning was different. First off, I woke up to several inches of snow freshly blanketing the ground, trees, cars and our house.  That alone lifted my spirit and my heat leaped for  joy.  It was more than beautiful!  Second, God gave me a sense of peace. I had no anxious thoughts, no worries, no fears about what I was going to be doing. God just calmed my heart.  He kept bringing me back to something someone told me this past month:

"Don't plan on what to say, just go into it trusting God and He will give you the words to say: the Holy Spirit will speak through you."

And even though the kids were wild and hectic, all was well. I didn't leave worried, I didn't walk out of the classroom stressed, I walked out of the room at peace.

The kids this week were quite hectic.  Many of them didn't follow directions very well, they wondered when they were suppose to be sitting, and the cried a lot.  The teacher/helper to kid ratio was about 1 to 6.  The welcome worked out pretty good, and it helped that there were a few kids out of the bunch that were willing to speak up and answer the questions about the rules.  One of the other helpers came and had to lead the worship song because I don't know any completely - it's been a long while since I have sang those songs. I had a craft planned that they would be given a contraption that they would just color, that when they pushed a "Bible button" part of the memory verse would pop up ("good and true").  But last night after I had finished the example, I found that reproduction of a fully functional contraption for 20 kids just wasn't going to work out (and it didn't as I tried).  So after much frustration, anger and prayer, I was able to finally refocus my mind on the craft and through the help of Laura, I was able to come up with an idea for another craft.  The craft was basically a pop-up bible. On the front was the words "God's Word", and on the inside three words popped out "Right; And; True" and on the back was "The Bible." This was because the memory verse was "God's Word is right and true."  Praise God, everything worked out and He gave me a ton of peace! Thank you God!