Gracious George
Memorable Monday Moments:
Years ago I participated in a "family home evening" group. Basically it was a group of ten women who met monthly to share ideas for family home evening lessons. Each month we'd choose a theme, and then each of us would take an assignment (one hosted and did refreshments ideas, four of us did stories, the rest were assigned an object lesson, game, song suggestions or scripture ideas, complete with visual aids, and the tenth person was "off"). We'd make ten copies of whatever we chose, explain them to each other, and then spend the rest of our time visiting. It was a great excuse to get away for awhile and yet not feel selfish about it because it was for the good of my family!
One month the theme was service. We still have our story of "Gracious George" hanging around. And because it's been awhile since he's visited, we're pulling him out tonight, even if our kids are teenagers. We've really enjoyed having him around before. You can find additional experiences with Gracious George here and here and here and here.
Basically it's the story of the Gingerbread Man, but as he runs away he does acts of service - puts away shoes, washes dishes, weeds the garden, etc. One family member starts by doing some sort of service for someone else, leaving "Gracious George" at the scene. Then that person does something for someone else and passes George along.
(I remembered this idea after reading about "Service Spiders" from my friend last week - a wonderful new Halloween tradition for next year!)
Years ago I participated in a "family home evening" group. Basically it was a group of ten women who met monthly to share ideas for family home evening lessons. Each month we'd choose a theme, and then each of us would take an assignment (one hosted and did refreshments ideas, four of us did stories, the rest were assigned an object lesson, game, song suggestions or scripture ideas, complete with visual aids, and the tenth person was "off"). We'd make ten copies of whatever we chose, explain them to each other, and then spend the rest of our time visiting. It was a great excuse to get away for awhile and yet not feel selfish about it because it was for the good of my family!
One month the theme was service. We still have our story of "Gracious George" hanging around. And because it's been awhile since he's visited, we're pulling him out tonight, even if our kids are teenagers. We've really enjoyed having him around before. You can find additional experiences with Gracious George here and here and here and here.
Basically it's the story of the Gingerbread Man, but as he runs away he does acts of service - puts away shoes, washes dishes, weeds the garden, etc. One family member starts by doing some sort of service for someone else, leaving "Gracious George" at the scene. Then that person does something for someone else and passes George along.
(I remembered this idea after reading about "Service Spiders" from my friend last week - a wonderful new Halloween tradition for next year!)
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