Thursday, August 18, 2011

Fruit Anyone?

Today's lesson involved my grandmother, Mimi's, favorite verse.  Galatians 5:22 says "the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control."  Lauren and I talked about what each of these words mean and that this is how Jesus wants us to be.  Some words she understood better than others, and some I had a harder time explaining in 5 year old terms.  I got out paper and crayons and let her draw fruit, to give her a visual.  I started to make it more complicated by thinking about what fruit should represent each trait.  Peace is definitely a banana to me.  They are bland and not exciting and peace is calm.  Joy is orange, because of its color.  Love is a strawberry, since everyone loves strawberries.  In the end she drew fruit she wanted and they are both happily playing with Play-Doh again.  Hopefully the words will stick when they are playing together.  I just want some gentleness and kindness!

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