Children's Time: Great 'G' Words: Giving and being Generous (Feb 16, 2014)

Children’s Time: Giving and Being Generous

Good morning, friends.

Today, I would like to talk with you about some good, great ‘G’ words.

I think that words that start with ‘G’ are Generally Good!

What ‘G’ words can you think of, that are Good?

(Gold, good, give, get, gentle…

One of the first ‘G’ words that my 3 year old younger son learned from his daycare was ‘Be Gentle.’

What else?

Green…?

Let’s continue to talk after watching a ‘G’ood video clip about other Good ‘G’ words.

Let’s talk about the story in the video clip.

The little boy happened to find money stuck to the tire, and wanted to use it to buy things for himself.

Then, what did he see?

An older boy was playing with a football and kicked it, and unfortunately, it fell on the cart of an old lady and broke the glasses she uses to sell drinks.      

The old lady was upset at first, wasn’t she? Did you think she would yell at the boy who broke her drinking glasses?

What did she do?

The old lady forGave him. So here is another good ‘G’ word – forGive.

When the little boy saw the old woman forGive the older boy so Generously, what did he choose to do?

He changed his mind from buying things for himself with the money – ice cream, sandals …He changed his mind and chose to buy drinking glasses for the old lady.

What do you think made him change his mind?

The old lady was so Generous,  - that’s a good G word, ‘generous’ – to the other boy who broke the drinking glasses. She forgave him, smiled at him, and let him go and play again. Her generosity touched the little boy. Her generosity inspired him to be generous, too.

The great ‘G’ words that we can find in this video are forGive, Give, and be Generous.

All of these three words have God’s special G in them.

So, today’s message for us is “Let us be children of God (who also starts with a G) who forGive, Give, and be Generous.”

The Great Gift that we can give to each other is to Give the best of ourselves to one another.

Giving is a great way to communicate; Giving is a great way to talk to each other, heart to heart. 

Generous Giving can change us from the inside out.

Another G word we missed – GRATITUDE.

Great! Go gladly in the grace of God!