God is the most real of all that exists because He is the creator of all that we encounter around us. However, because we can't exactly see and touch the Trinity it can be hard to know how to show Him as real. (Yes, I know we see and touch Jesus in the Eucharist...but that's also another huge layer of mystery, right?!) While we speak about God and Jesus and listening and speaking with God from the very first day of our entry into the Atrium, it is the geography materials (presented just before Advent) which provide the children with an opportunity to receive the proclamation of the "realness" of Jesus.
Jesus really lived on the earth. He lived in a tiny land called "Israel." God could have chosen a great nation, a large country, but He chose a tiny place that we know as Israel. This is where Jesus was born and lived and taught and died and rose. I wonder what that tells us about God. He wanted to be with us and to do so He chose a tiny place, the tiny land of Israel.