Thank God for Manna!

Today's devotion was on God providing manna for the Israelites after they had escaped from the Egyptians and were in the desert. The Lord heard the peopl's complaints and provided them with "thin flakes like frost" on the ground.

I use the Candle's toddler's bible with En as it has nice colourful pictures, with a simple one-liner on each page. Its wonderful also because it shows the expression of the people potrayed on the page and the colour of the Israelites' hair is brownish (and not yellow! like in some other children's bible).

I planted Cheerios around the living room and asked En to search for Manna. Each time, he found the Manna, I would ask him to thank God for it. He was really excited in going through the process of searching and looking for his snack. I really enjoyed seeing the look of delight on his face when he found the "manna". Hopefully he remembers the manna in addition to the story of the Egyptians who suffered boils on their face. For the latter story, he would always touch his face with a pained look and say, "Aunty, pain pain" cos I told him the boils were painful on the Egyptians' faces when God inflicted it on them!

If you like this idea, you can use it for finding quail on the ground as well, which is the next part of the story in Exodus 16. This idea came from a book I read on stay home moms. This particular mother laid out the chicken and bread on the floor and her teenage children had their dinner on seated on the floor instead of at the usual dining table seat! How innovative! :)