Ep. 89: Connecting God's Design to Science and Rest with Sarah Philpott

Welcome to our podcast today, Sarah.

I'm so grateful to be here, Monica.

Thank you so much for inviting me.

So I am excited.

We get to talk about two amazing resources that you have created for young children, for parents of young children.

They will work great in early childhood classrooms.

Let's start out with your newest book called Wake Up, Little Seed.

Tell me a little bit about what made you want to write a book about planting, first of all.

We live on a farm.

So I have a front row experience every single day to watch how God's creation work and the cycles of it.

I also have four children.

So it is just absolutely amazing to get to go out.

We always go out in the summertime.

And before the 4th of July, and we take pumpkin seeds and we plant an entire field of pumpkins and our kids get to watch the growth happen.

And by October, we have a field full of pumpkins that the children love to invite their friends over so they can take them home.

We do roadside sales.

We just get to see the joy of creation.

And it just made me realize that not all children necessarily have a front row seat.

to the lifestyle of farming.

So it's a little foreign to them that a seed might grow.

So that's kind of the premise behind the book is I just want to showcase, I want to bring as much as possible to life this concept of how a tiny seed goes into the ground, how it later emerges as this vibrant fruit or vegetable.

And there was a place in the book where the farmer's children, when they see it start growing, they ask the farmer, is it magic? And the farmer says, this isn't magic.

This is the way God created the earth to work.

So that was my inspiration for this.

I just want children to realize that God is the one who is the who behind the science.