Today I am ready to teach my child Psalm 23 without looking at my Bible or the copy of the verses I printed for Cali since I have already memorized it by heart. It is by God’s grace of course that I can remember since memory is a “needs improvement” thing for me. Whenever I’m not doing anything like when I’m waiting for my husband to fetch me, I try to practice reciting it in my mind. It’s a joy that I’m finally confident reciting the six verses of David’s very popular, meaningful, and rich in God’s promises, the lovely Psalm 23.
Teaching to a 3 year old boy would require some patience though. He said that if the sheep would lie down on the green grass, won’t they get tickled? Haha. I just answered him by saying that sheep love lying in the grass because the grass is their food and they love to munch it.
He can recite up to verse 3 now, but he still tries to make his own version, like for verse 2, he said “He leads me beside quiet tubig”. Cali is fond of changing or creating his own lines ever since I can remember. Tubig is Filipino for water.
Explaining the verses may not be that easy but I’m planning to give more illustrations on the following:
1. What it means when you’re lacking and what it means when you have enough. Maybe I can show a clip art of an empty table and one with food.
2. How God guides us in paths of righteousness. I need to show how God helps us to become good and how He gives us opportunities to become a blessing to make His righteousness shine in us.
3. How God is so close to us that we should never fear especially when we are in the dark. This will be a bit easy since he has this little book “Jesus Is with Me” that I’ve been reading to him since he was I think a few months old. He always says “I’m not scared Mama, because Jesus is with me”.
4. What goodness and love of God really mean. Yesterday I found an interesting Salvation presentation for kids. I didn’t know the impact until after dinner when while jumping on the sofa, he began to shout in a singsong manner “ang sarap sa heaven”, meaning, it’s so nice to be in heaven. It’s a relief to me he now somehow understands the beauty of heaven. About God’s goodness and love, well, that I think I need to repeat again that everything we have comes from God because of His love and grace.
I would gladly welcome any suggestions in explaining or getting more of Psalm 23 for my son. I would hopefully post again the result of whatever we’ll be doing for the week. Here are some of what I printed yesterday.
God bless us!
