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Fall Festival Children's Message

We are having our Fall Festival at church today. We have a chili contest - mine is entered! And we have pumpkin painting and scarecrow making... and games and food and FUN! I was asked to give the children's message at church today and I was asked to make it something that would go with the Fall Festival. Last year Shawn did a really cute message with a pumpkin and scooping out the YUCK and carving the face, and ending with lighting the candle. (it's on-line, you can find it.) She offered that I could do that again - but I felt it was too soon. I'm sure if I remember it, others would too! So I thought I would do something with Candy Corn. I was sure I'd be able to find something on-line ... I mean it's CANDY CORN! 3 colors. Holy Trinity. Right??? I did not have much luck. I found one little poem that really didn't work for me... and one kind of bizarre teaching that REALLY didn't work for me. Oy vey! Soooooo.... I started researching what the colors of a candy corn DO stand for in Christianity. I knew what I WANTED them to stand for... Yellow to be the SON, White to be the Holy Spirit... but I wasn't sure how to make ORANGE stand for God the Father. As it turned out, it worked perfectly! Here is the basic outline I used...

White -- Holy Spirit - pure, smallest part so it can fit in our hearts...

Orange -- God the Father - Orange symbolizes strength, power and GLORY! It's the GREAT,BIG part that holds it (and us) all together.

Yellow - God the Son - the base (of Christianity) and the widest part - reminds me how WIDE He stretched His arms to show His love for us.

Of course, I am giving out little individual packs of candy corn for the children, and I wanted to attach something to them to REMIND them... so I prayed... and then I wrote... and this is what we (me and God) came up with...

posted by Melli at 6:00 AM