Family Home Evening

     Every Monday we have Family Home Evening.  Tonight as a family we went to a restaurant for dinner and then came home and had our usual song, prayer, and lesson.  For the lesson I read a poem entitled "We're all different" by Susan Parry from the Friend:

"Some kids are short, and others are tall.

Some have lots of freckles and some not at all.

Some ride in wheelchairs because they can’t walk.

Others sound different from me when they talk.

Some kids wear clothes with a funny design

And have faces a lot different from mine.

Some kids are skinny and others more round.

When I think about Jesus, here’s what I’ve found:

He loves every child. He just doesn’t mind

What they look like or talk like. He’s still just as kind.

I want to be like Him. He’d never make fun

Of a child who looks different or can’t walk or run.

So when I see children who aren’t just like me,

I’ll think about Jesus, and like Him I’ll be.

I might feel a bit shy, but I know what to do.

I’ll be friends with them all—and I bet you will too!"

     I love the simplicity of this poem because it is easy to explain to my daughter who is nearly 3 years old.  But the gospel really is that simple to understand.  Jesus Christ loves all of us, he does not look on the outward appearance and I want to be just like Him.

Love,

     Becky joy