may: Manna
After God delivered the people from slavery, God led them to the wilderness, where they spent 40 years practicing being a community and following God. When they were hungry and cried out to God, God sent food in the form of manna. The people were told to take enough for each person - and as long as they did that, there was enough for all. But when they tried to store it up and hoard it, it got rotten. This object lesson will be lost on the young child, but can serve as a helpful reminder of the power of enough for parents and caregivers!
Read It
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Exodus 16:13-21
....Moses said to them, “It is the bread the Lord has given you to eat. 16 This is what the Lord has commanded: ‘Everyone is to gather as much as they need. Take an omer[a] for each person you have in your tent.’” ... |
Pray It
God, you provide for us, sometimes in ways that surprise us. Help us to be satisfied with enough, and to make sure others have enough, too. Amen.
God, you provide for us, sometimes in ways that surprise us. Help us to be satisfied with enough, and to make sure others have enough, too. Amen.
Make It
We aren’t exactly sure of what the manna was, but scholars like to make guesses, and this month’s recipe is what one baker (https://familymealblog.com/2013/03/30/manna/) imagined from scholars’ descriptions.
Ingredients
2 cups flour (wheat flour or GF blend)
1 cup cold water
1 Tbsp coriander seeds, crushed fine
1 Tbsp raw honey
Pinch of salt
Instructions
We aren’t exactly sure of what the manna was, but scholars like to make guesses, and this month’s recipe is what one baker (https://familymealblog.com/2013/03/30/manna/) imagined from scholars’ descriptions.
Ingredients
2 cups flour (wheat flour or GF blend)
1 cup cold water
1 Tbsp coriander seeds, crushed fine
1 Tbsp raw honey
Pinch of salt
Instructions
- Preheat oven to 475 F
- Combine the flour, salt and coriander seeds in a bowl
- Stir in the water and honey and mix with a fork until fully combined. Knead it a few times to form a ball.
- Divide the dough into 8 sections. Roll each out on a floured surface until very, very, very thin.
- Place the rolled out dough on a couple cookie sheets (it’s okay if they touch - they won’t spread), and bake for 10-12 minutes until they begin to turn golden on top.
- While still warm, drizzle more honey on top and place back in the oven until bubbling. Remove, cool completely, break them apart, and eat.
- Mixing!
- Dividing the dough into equal balls (if you have a math-minded child, they may enjoy weighing each ball to get them as equal as possible)
- Rolling it out very thin (go for teamwork here - they do some, you do some)
- Breaking the manna up after it cools
- Distributing it among the people of the household so everyone has enough
Explore it: A Note from Tami
This Bible passage makes me think about our worries and cares. Will our needs today be taken care of? How about tomorrow’s needs? It isn’t always easy to trust God to provide and we worry about things in our lives. And sometimes our children are concerned, too. How can we help them feel confident and safe? We can’t promise them that everything will always be easy and that we will always have everything we want. But we can help them feel secure in your and God's care.
* This article focuses on how God cares about the big and small things in our lives.
God cares for the small things, too
* And this article may help you support your children when they worry.
Helping kids when they worry
This Bible passage makes me think about our worries and cares. Will our needs today be taken care of? How about tomorrow’s needs? It isn’t always easy to trust God to provide and we worry about things in our lives. And sometimes our children are concerned, too. How can we help them feel confident and safe? We can’t promise them that everything will always be easy and that we will always have everything we want. But we can help them feel secure in your and God's care.
* This article focuses on how God cares about the big and small things in our lives.
God cares for the small things, too
* And this article may help you support your children when they worry.
Helping kids when they worry
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Building Faith, a ministry of the Mennonite Early Childhood Network, operates on a limited budget funded totally by personal donations.
Would you be willing to donate to keep it going?
A small regular donation of $5.00 or a larger one time contribution would be greatly appreciated. Click below to make a tax deductible contribution to Mennonite Early Childhood Network through the Mennonite Education Agency, our parent organization.
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