Flowers Follow Showers
Children's sermon
Open My Eyes
More Children's Object Lessons
Object:
some beautiful flowers in a paper sack. Bring them out when you talk about flowers.
Purpose: To think about using hard times for personal growth.
Material: Put some beautiful flowers in a paper sack. Bring them out when you talk about flowers.
Special Instructions: This illustration should be used in the spring when there have been a lot of rainy days.
Lesson: There is an old saying that reminds us of what has been happening this week. Let me see if any of you have heard it: ''April showers bring ...'' (''May flowers.'' Share your flowers.) We need to have rain in order for things to grow. Without the showers, there would be no flowers. This fact of life helps us to understand what often happens to us in life. We usually think of rainy days as dark and stormy. They may make it difficult for us to go some place or to do something special outside. Now, there may also be days in your life that may make you unhappy. Something happens, like a terrible storm, and you are frightened. We call these sad or frightening times hard times, but they can be important to us for they can help us to grow as we learn to handle them. When you are having a hard time, you need to ask yourself, ''Why am I troubled and sad, and what can I do about it? Is there something I could have done differently that would have helped me avoid the problem? How can I change my attitude to help
me get through this time?'' That is how you grow into a special, beautiful person. That is how you use the rainy times of life to blossom into that special person God created.
Possible Times To Use This Illustration In The Home:
• When your child is unhappy because a rainy day has caused a cancellation of a special event.
• In the spring, when the flowers are blooming in your garden.
• When a child is faced with any type of personal hardship.
Scriptural Background: ''More than that, we rejoice in our suffering, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us'' (Romans 5:3-5).
Material: Put some beautiful flowers in a paper sack. Bring them out when you talk about flowers.
Special Instructions: This illustration should be used in the spring when there have been a lot of rainy days.
Lesson: There is an old saying that reminds us of what has been happening this week. Let me see if any of you have heard it: ''April showers bring ...'' (''May flowers.'' Share your flowers.) We need to have rain in order for things to grow. Without the showers, there would be no flowers. This fact of life helps us to understand what often happens to us in life. We usually think of rainy days as dark and stormy. They may make it difficult for us to go some place or to do something special outside. Now, there may also be days in your life that may make you unhappy. Something happens, like a terrible storm, and you are frightened. We call these sad or frightening times hard times, but they can be important to us for they can help us to grow as we learn to handle them. When you are having a hard time, you need to ask yourself, ''Why am I troubled and sad, and what can I do about it? Is there something I could have done differently that would have helped me avoid the problem? How can I change my attitude to help
me get through this time?'' That is how you grow into a special, beautiful person. That is how you use the rainy times of life to blossom into that special person God created.
Possible Times To Use This Illustration In The Home:
• When your child is unhappy because a rainy day has caused a cancellation of a special event.
• In the spring, when the flowers are blooming in your garden.
• When a child is faced with any type of personal hardship.
Scriptural Background: ''More than that, we rejoice in our suffering, knowing that suffering produces endurance, and endurance produces character, and character produces hope, and hope does not disappoint us, because God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit which has been given to us'' (Romans 5:3-5).
