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It’s a Jungle Out There

 

Grab

Car keys

Zoo admission

Snacks and water bottles

Sunscreen

Walking shoes

Camera

Go

Hop, crawl, or fly together to the zoo! Look over the zoo map and mark the exhibits that are a must-see. Let your daughter take the lead and have an amazing time checking out each animal habitat. Take turns with the camera. (She’ll have fun telling everyone that her photo of the ape is really a picture of you!)

Grow

During a snack break, ask each other these questions:

Of the animals we’ve seen, which would you like to pet the most?

Which one would be fun to take home?

Which one was the most scary? Ugly?

Which animal habitat looked like fun to play in?

If you could have any job at the zoo, which would be the most fun?

If you were an animal, what do you think you would be?

Each animal has a unique habitat that meets its individual needs. Zoologists put huge amounts of study and effort into creating ideal environments where each animal can thrive.

God has placed us in just the right setting to live too!

From one man he made all the nations, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he marked out their appointed times in history and the boundaries of their lands. God did this so that they would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from any one of us. “For in him we live and move and have our being.” (Acts 17:26–28)

God knew when we would be born and exactly where we should live. He had a purpose for our time and place: that we could find him as our Savior!

Dear Father,

Thank you that our lives aren’t an accident. You knew exactly when and where we should be in this world so that we could find you. Thank you for the beautiful world you made and for all of the amazing creatures in it. Please remind us as we look at them in their habitats that you are in control. Your ways are perfect and you have loved us from the beginning of time. Amen!