Once again, I was tapped to give the children’s sermon at church today, with a continuation of John 6:35.  While I was in San Antonio yesterday for Girl Scout training, I left the loving hubs with a to-do list of making me a dozen small loaves of bread.  Late last night, I wrapped the bread in paper, then stitched together a dozen cloth bags and tied them closed.  On the string, I added a special note (see below).

For the children, I asked them if they knew what “pay it forward” meant.  Then, I went on to explain that it meant you do something nice for someone, and they, in turn, do something nice for someone else.  As an example, I told them how a wonderful lady purchased my books for college when I was younger, with the agreement that someday, I’d do the same … and pay it forward.  And now, we are doing that – paying for our niece’s books for college.

And I wanted them to help me do the same with the loaves of bread.  I asked them to take one (or two) and go out and give them to people in our congregation, and ask THEM to “pay it forward” — give the bread to someone who perhaps doesn’t have a relationship with Christ, and hopefully that will offer them a new way of life, through Him…so they will never be hungry or thirsty again.

I must have done something right, because the number of people who thanked me and patted my back after the service was amazing – though I did explain that the bread wasn’t an original thought (they had a ministry at our church in Utah that did this)!  I think I may have gone from the mom with all the kids to being NOTICED <eek>!  May have to sleek back to the shadows for a while, just to get my back to the wall again 😉