Donkey

Nathan has a new Bible insight he'd like to share with our blog-reading family and friends. Though many of the passages in the Bible focus on people, there is an equally important Biblical figure - the donkey.

Pictured prominently in our illustrated children's Bible, "don-dey" takes people to and fro. He spans many generations. He is a part of both Old and New Testaments. He is sometimes sitting, sometimes carrying, sometimes watching, but always integral to the best stories. Nathan will flip through page after page looking for "don-dey" and smiling with glee when he finds him on yet another adventure. Jason has had to ad lib the Bible text a bit to include the important plot elements centering around "don-dey". (As you would suspect, Elijah traveled often with a "don-dey" and Joseph and Mary and "don-dey" had to go back to the temple to find Jesus...)

Sometimes it takes a child to open our eyes to a different world. I imagine God looks at our lives through very different eyes than our own too. I hope that I may see as He sees.