The Bible tells us “the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.” Not a banana?
Ask your children about the silly song we sang (and acted out) about how you can’t be a banana and be a fruit of the Spirit. Don’t worry, we also took time to notice all the wonderful things we can become if we take what God and Jesus tell us into our hearts. As you can imagine we focused on kindness.
The children were right when I asked what they thought about Jesus. Yes, he was kind. One of the reasons God sent Jesus to earth was to give us an example of how to live a Godly life. Jesus showed us how to be kind. He even healed a lame man by the pool of Bethesda. The man had no way to get into the pool. He told Jesus, “While I am trying to get in, someone else goes down ahead of me.” Jesus told him to “Get up! Pick up your mat and walk.” He healed him. Jesus was kind.
I’m so glad to know our kids are taking this idea of kindness into their hearts. We have a LONG chain of kindness to show it. We stretched out the chain. It took many helping hands to hold it. It almost stretched all the way across the Sanctuary. I wondered if there were about 20 chains links. Our older kids were sure there were more, “Maybe 100!” We counted out the twenty links. That didn’t cover much of the length. My estimate is there are about 300 link! When it hangs in our office it now almost wraps all the way around!
We finished by singing our song about being kind. (Tune: I had a little turtle, his name was Tiny Tim)
K-I-N-D kind, I can be so kind.
K-I-N-D kind, I’ll be kind today.
K-I-N-D kind, I can be so kind.
I can be kind and helpful everyday. Hey!
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