Penny Bridge School

This morning Sarah and I went to Penny Bridge School for the assembly.  It was great to see all the children again and to feel such a warm welcome from the staff too.  After singing So Many Ways to Praise the Lord we displayed a series of optical illusions and asked the children what they saw, Sarah had opened the assembly by talking about how sometimes we can see one thing and someone else can see something different hence the pictures.  Some of them didn't work perhaps due to the bright light but most did.  We saw lines that looked like they could touch but were in fact parallel to each other, a multi-legged elephant and an old women or was it a young lady??  This was just to bring the children to a point in the assembly were I told a story from the Bible - the selection of David as King of Israel by God through Samuel.  After Samuel had looked at the outside of 7 brothers God looked on the inside of them into their hearts, David came to stand before Samuel and God told Samuel he was the one as he trusted God, loved God and followed God.  Sarah talked about how we can sometimes look at a person and think that they are a good person when inside they perhaps are not - God looks on the inside whereas man looks only on the outside.  However what we have on our inside from God we should Shine out to show everyone - cue for a song....Shine from the Inside Out so the world will see you live in me.  Following the song Sarah closed the assembly with a prayer.