Did you enjoy this week’s reading? Lois Lowry gives many clues about Jonas’s community. We learn about Sameness: climate control, the absence of color, the same skin tone, flat land. Is this a good thing? What was sacrificed to achieve sameness? Would you be willing to make these sacrifices? Why? Differences can be great—colors, seasons, mountains…

Psalm 23 begins: “The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want…” (NIV) “I shall not want” means I have everything I need because God, my shepherd, provides for me. To be “in want” means that you need something. For a long time, when I read: “The LORD is my shepherd, I shall not want…”, …

This week, Zuno picked The Rainbow Fish by Marcus Pfister. Color and sparkling scales fill the covers of Marcus Pfister’s Rainbow Fish, as do lots of lessons on friendship, giving, and a good attitude. Meet an octopus, a starfish, Rainbow Fish and a school of others when you dive into this book.

Have you ever opened your mouth only to have words spill out that you wish you could get back? Me too. The Bible compares our mouth to fire or a wild animal that can’t be tamed. Listen to what Solomon tells us in Proverbs 10:19: “When words are many, sin is not absent, but he…

The Ceremony of Twelve begins today as we read chapters seven through twelve of Lois Lowry’s The Giver. The Chief Elder selects Jonas for a special assignment, and the community honors Jonas above all the other twelves. What is the mysterious assignment and why was Jonas chosen? Look for ways Jonas’s community is different from…