The Golden Rule

Hi there! 

Last week, Dave talked about Jesus's miracles and his biggest commandment: to love one another. 

Often in the bible, we read how God loves everyone, even people who are really mean and ungrateful. In Jesus’s sermon on the Plain, we hear about how we are supposed to love our enemies and show kindness to people, even if they are being unkind to us. That’s not easy! 

It’s a lot easier to love and forgive someone who is kind and loving. It’s pretty hard to forgive someone who has done us wrong. Sometimes the hardest person to forgive can be ourselves. Sometimes we are our own worst enemy. We need to remember that everyone makes mistakes, and no matter what, we are loved and we are forgiven too!

Let’s try to follow the Golden Rule: treat others how we want to be treated. 

I thought you might enjoy this story, Enemy Pie, written by Derek Munson and illustrated by Tara Calahan King. I've read it in church before, so you may remember it. But it is such a good story, about treating people as friends, even if they act like our worst enemy. 

Challenge from Dave:

Dave's challenge for each of you... is to do an act of kindness for someone this week. It might be someone in your family, or perhaps someone at school. 

Activity:

Make a collage using pictures from magazines, newspapers or advertising fliers... of all kinds of people, showing that God's love is for everyone.

Here's a prayer...

Loving God,

Help us to treat others with love, as Jesus taught us. 

Amen.