Since last week's New Testament reading in the more advanced children's bibles wasn't very productive, I decided to go back to the Beginner's Bible, in which every episode is told in a few pages, each page featuring one big picture and a few lines of simple text which is very easy to spontaneously translate into German.
We got from the nativity up through the Roman centurion and his servant. J could follow much more easily. When I asked him what he wanted to listen to in the car after reading, he said the bible, up to the place where we had read, which tells me he had understood everything and was now excited about hearing "a different version." (See my post on different versions of the same story)
The part in the Sermon on the Mount about the carefree birds and flowers (see image above) gave rise to an interesting discussion about how Jesus, although he knows what's going on in people's hearts and minds, perhaps isn't the best observer of nature, because from J's experience, birds and other animals work incredibly hard to get food, feed their babies, etc., and many of them do indeed "store up food." We did agree with Jesus that the flowers don't do much—although they, too, have a hard time and sometimes even die when it doesn't rain for weeks at a time.
Further listening: Albert E. erklärt die Sinnesorgane, 30:00-45:00 (End); Sophiechen und der Riese, 1:55-2:02.
Further reading: Otfried Preußler, Der kleine Wassermann, ch. 15-16.
Age 4.12.23
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