Mina's faith; Amen!; creation

A few weeks ago I went through our medicine drawer and threw away all of our medicine. Pills, both over-the-counter and prescription, syrups, headache medicine, even Tony's epi-pen. I threw out Mina's medicines too, except for her allergy pills that her doctor gave us that are really expensive, and her nebulizer that was hard to get and expensive. I didn't feel like my faith could merit me throwing away that important medicine of hers.

Then, a few days ago, she was going through the drawer where we kept it all, and she saw a small paper bag. When she looked in and saw that it was the allergy pills, she picked them up and took them to the trash. A while later, she told me that I forgot to throw them away. How could I argue?! Then a couple days later, she comes to the kitchen with the box that has her nebulizer in it. Cool!

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Our neighbor, Summer (5), was at out house watching a movie with us. She had dinner already, but we just started ours. We got ready to say a prayer and asked if she wanted to say it with us, which really only involved her holding our hands. She said yes and Tony said the prayer. After we said amen, she did too.

An hour passed and her mom came to get her. She told Summer the usual mom thing, "What do you say?" "Thank you", and proceeded to say thank you for letting her watch the movie, thank you for the popcorn, thank you for the hot chocolate, and then, after she concluded all of her 'thank you's', she said "Amen!"

We laughed while her mom was just like "What?!" I guess she was thinking what a strange child she has. I wonder if there was a conversation later about that at their house.

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Mina came home with science homework. We knew it would come, and it did. Evolution. Now, realize, I'm ok with them teaching evolution, but they should at least teach both evolution and creation. Not teach evolution as a definate. Especially when, most likely, a good 80% or more of the people in the school believe in God. The God of the bible.

So here is the question she had:

Explain some possible causes of the extinction of the dinosaurs?

She was irritated by this question because she knew it was all about evolution and didn't even give the possibility of creation. And she wasn't alone. A boy in her class said "What about the flood?"

Here was her answer that she wrote down:

"Other than the real reason, the flood, some possible causes of the extinction of the dinosaurs are...."

I'm not even going to mention the "possible reasons" because they don't deserve the space. What matters is that she believes in the flood. She believes in God. And no amount of brainwashing from these "science" books and the teacher is going to matter to her at this point. She decided to tell the truth in spite of what the book said. I think that's amazing. And if her teacher gives her trouble, she can take it up with...God.

Thank You God for helping Mina to be bold.