Forgiveness

I was really excited about my Sunday school lesson today. It was a lesson with lots of great stuff, so I was thrilled.

The lesson was on forgiveness and in the middle of the lesson it had a great object lesson. You give each kids a piece of paper and have them make an airplane. Then you line them up telling them you are going to see which ones goes the farthest. Right before they toss it, you put a paperclip on the side of the airplane. When they fly the plane, they notice that it just crashes. Then they can fly the plane again without the clip and it goes a lot farther. Point of the object lesson is we can go farther and straighter without the weight of a grudge.

I thought it would be perfect! I have mostly boys, so I knew for sure they would get into it and love it. And learn from it!

Along with that thinking, I should have known. I have been teaching Sunday school classes off an on for 14 years. I know what to do with kids and what NOT to do with kids. I know better than to let them make a paper airplanes in the middle of the lesson and expect them NOT to play with them. What was I thinking? My own fault. I knew better.

So everyone once in a while during the remainder of my lesson, I would see an airplane go up and crash back down.

Again, My own fault.