red and yellow, black and white

Remember that song?

Jesus loves the little children.

All the children of the world.

Red and yellow, black and white -

they are precious in His sight.

Jesus loves the little children of the world!

Today in Bible we sang this song and talked about how much Jesus loves all of the people He has created.

We talked about how these boxes are the same - they are all boxes, they are all made from the same type of paper, they were all made by the same person.

The only way they are different is their color.

Then we checked out what was on the inside...

"It's a heart!!!"

(They were actually more excited than they look...for some reason I just couldn't get their actual smiles on camera! :-p )

Next we discovered that the inside of each box was the same - a pretty "diamond" heart.

The point was that while Jesus may have chosen to give us different colors on the outside, just like these boxes, the real treasure was on the inside - the box was just a way to hold each heart and was not the part that mattered. Each one of us, no matter the color of our skin, has been created by God and has hearts on the inside that, whether we realize it or not, long to know and praise God. And oh, how wonderful and creative a God he is! to give us so many beautiful colors in our world! How much would we be missing if we lived in a world without color?? But instead, He painted our world - and our skin - so many beautiful colors! We just took a few minutes to talk about this today so that as they grow up my kids first instinct will hopefully be to look to someone's heart to see what kind of person they are.

Then, of course, we had to play with the "diamonds" for a few minutes. :)

They are precious in His sight! :)