Lindale School

This morning Sarah and I went down to Lindale School for the assembly.  We started by singing a new song with them Great Great Brill Brill, we did point out that the word wicked in the song is street talk for cool.  After the song Sarah read the story of the lost son as this linked to the theme the school had set about relationships, friendships, falling out, making up and saying sorry.  As Sarah read the story I displayed pictures on the screen showing that part of the story.  After the story I explained a little about it and how the young son had come to his senses and decided to return home and say sorry for what he had done.  I also pointed out that all of us do things wrong from time to time and we should say sorry for it other wise the hurt we felt at the time and the hurt other people feel builds up and it then becomes even harder to say sorry.  I explained that this story is a parable and parables are earthly stories that have a heavenly meaning, and the dad in the story is God who wants us to turn to him and say sorry for the things we have done that are wrong.  Sarah continued by asking who finds it easy to say sorry - or do we just say it and not mean it.  To finish our assembly we sang May the God of Hope and then Sarah closed with a prayer.