Forgiveness

This week we talked about forgiveness.
Our verse was

We added peace sign stickers to remember the verse Hebrews 12:14-15 "Make every effort to live in peace with all men and to be holy; without holiness no one will see the Lord. See to it that no one misses the grace of God and that no bitter root grows up to cause trouble and defile many."
We were able to do some fun things to talk about forgiveness.

We made a cross to remind us to come to Jesus and ask for forgiveness when we sin.
I made a cross out of packing tape and the girls stuck cut up pieces of tissue paper to it.  Then I put packing tape on top to seal the tissue paper in.  We taped it to the door to be a sun catcher.

Forgiveness can be hard for little ones to understand, but I wanted them to know that Jesus forgives our sins right away because He loves us so much.

This activity was a great visual to show what our hearts are like when we come to Jesus.

We started with white hearts cut out of fabric.

Then the girls colored the hearts with washable markers.

This represented our sin. 

Then the girls dipped their hearts in bleach water. 

After a few minutes our hearts were White as Snow.



I really really liked this activity.  I will do it again and again as the girls get older.

I liked the verse we had this week because it talks about how our behavior needs to be like the Lord's.  We need to forgive quickly because He did.

Forgive others quickly, just as the Lord forgave you.

Colossians 3:13