Olivia brought home some of her artwork from the first couple of weeks of school. I took this picture of the one I was most proud of. It was hanging on the wall of the classroom at the first open house. There was a picture of each child in the center then they were to write all the things they liked or things that were special to them around the picture. Of course the first thing I noticed on Olivia's was Jesus. I looked around at the other children's and no one else wrote down Jesus....it made me a little sad as I further adjusted to my child being in public school.
When Olivia brought the picture home the other day I looked at it again and begin to think why hadn't any other child put Jesus or God on theirs. I knew there were several other children that were Christians. Two of them even go to our church. Then I thought....Olivia was fresh off the boat from private school were they talked about Jesus all the time at school. These kids are used to just the opposite. They probably are conditioned not to think, talk or write about Jesus at school. They only do that at church. I thought I can't let that change Olivia. I want her to think, talk and write about Jesus at school. So I took the opportunity at that moment to go talk to her and tell her how proud I was to see that she wrote down how special Jesus was to her and let everyone else know that. I told her I know they don't talk about Jesus at this school like they did last year at her school, but that doesn't mean that you can't talk about him, I told her. And I hope that you will continue to do that even though that isn't what everyone else does. She did say her teacher does talk about God sometimes..... I don't know if that is true or not.....but I would like to think so!
