Chino the Church Mouse

Be willing to be kind and share what we have.

Memory Verse:

Colossians 3:8, "Stop being angry and unkind."

Age Group:

Preschool to Grade 2.

Chino bounced onto the pulpit.  He squeaked with delight and scrambled on top of the Bible.  "Dearly Beloved," he shouted, "We are here today to celebrate spring."  All the mice cheered as he went on, "The church folk kindly left us food, so let's begin!"   With that he took a flying leap onto the floor and waddled to where the mice had gathered around a huge piece of cake.  They were all trying to grab the cake.  And that's when the trouble started.  Squabbling broke out and in a moment there was a rolling mass of mice.  You just saw teeth and whiskers and flying tails!

Chino fought his way into the middle and sank his teeth into the cake.  He was determined that he was going eat all that cake by himself!  The other mice disagreed.  "It's mine," shouted one.  "No, its mine," claimed another.  No one thought that it would be good idea to share the cake.  Everyone was greedy and ready to fight.  Chino was whirled around and around.  The cake started to crumble ... in no time at all he had left was a tiny crumb!

The cake was gone!  The mice stopped fighting and looked sheepishly at each other.  Chino looked at his fur coat.  He had bites all over his body and tail!  The other mice were just as bad.  For a while no one spoke as they licked their wounds.   A small brown mouse spoke up, "But, what happened to the cake?"   Everyone looked around and were just in time to see "Old Sly One" the rat, slinking off licking cake crumbs off his whiskers, and with a great big grin on his face!

If only those mice had been kind to each other and shared the cake the fight could have been avoided, and all of them could have gone to bed happy.  But that didn't happen.  No, they just glared at each other, and spent a sleepless night licking their sores.

If we share and are kind to other boys and girls, we can avoid fighting and hurting each other.  If we do this we will please Jesus.  Yes, we need to do what the Bible tells us, and "stop being angry and unkind" to each other!

God bless!

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