Giving to the Lord OR The Pride Before Our Fall

Yesterday after church, I went to get Aaron and Hannah from their children's church class. There are a few ladies who rotate teaching the class. The lady who was there yesterday met me at the door and asked if we were planning to attend next week. Actually we weren't. The church is semi-new to me and the kids and next week is a large yearly event which makes me feel a bit overwhelmed being the new kid and there is something that the family needs to take care of on one of the next two weekends, so I thought we would skip out next week.

Children's church at our church is lots of fun and games, but it is structured somewhat like the adult service. There is a part for a lesson and an activity to reinforce the lesson. The teacher asked if one of the students would like to teach the lesson next week and Aaron volunteered.

Aaron is really becoming much more assertive and self confident. The fact that he volunteered amazed me. He has to come up with his own scripture and lesson he wants to present. Since he has volunteered, I think we will reschedule our family event and I will just have to grab the kids and make a mad dash out the door before the big church event. We are gradually easing into things. We all attend the dinner and Bible study on Wednesday nights. I attended the monthly women's fellowship this past weekend and I think I am going to attend the women's Bible study this Wednesday morning. The Sunday special event will be too overwhelming. Baby steps, people.

If you know Aaron, you already know he is a pretty compassionate little guy and a deep thinker. A couple weeks ago, he mentioned he needed offering for children's church. I told him I would give him some, but he said he wanted to take it out of his allowance. Perfect. As he should. He told me he didn't want anyone to think he loves Legos (which is what is always saving his money for these days) more than God. Awwww. He gets it. (This could have been a pride comes before the fall moment).

Then later Sunday afternoon Aaron and I had the following brief conversation:

Aaron: Hannah and I are having a church service for the stuffed animals.

Me: Oh. That's nice. (Of course I am thinking what great parents we are that our kids would want to play church with their stuffed animals. This could have been another pride comes before the fall moment.)

Aaron: Yes. And any money we collect during the offering is going to go toward a family trip to Disney World. (This could have been the fall.)

Me: Oh. (Now thinking that our instruction in giving and blessing others has failed somewhere along the line.)