Low Furness School

This morning Sarah and I were at Low Furness School.  The theme was caring, so we decided to sing Shine - from the inside out to start with as that is what we wanted our end message to be about.  We played the PIXAR short called For the Birds which was used at the front of a PIXAR movie some years ago.  It features a bird on a wire which gets joined by other birds which he dislikes.  Then before he realises there are lots of birds on the wire which all have a go at each other.  In the middle of this a rather large bird sees the fun and wants to join in - the other birds poke fun at him and move away.  But the larger bird flies over and plants itself in the middle of all the birds.  Well they don't like it at all and start talking about him and having a go at him including pushing him off the wire.  So now he is hanging upside down on the wire as his toes start to slip off one by one - the two nearest birds peck at them until he is hanging by just one toe.  One of the other birds realises that if they continue then it will be bad for them but it is just too late as the last toe falls off the wire which was rather stretched catapults all the other birds into the air at such a speed they leave their feathers behind.  Now the big bird still with his feathers becomes the shelter for all the little featherless birds.  You need to watch it to see the whole point.  I had taken a few screen shots of the movie at key points ready to talk about them.  Sarah asked the question which bird the children thought they were and as I displayed different scenes I asked the question again and again until the scene when all the birds needed the big bird for shelter.  Sarah referred to John 13

"A new command I give you: Love one another. As I have loved you, so you must love one another. By this all men will know that you are my disciples, if you love one another."

(John 13:34-35 NIV84)

Having sung Shine to start she also said that we should shine from the inside out, and if we care and show love to someone then that care and love will be reflected back.  To end we sang Wonderful Lord and during the instrumental break Sarah prayed.