Saturday, September 15, 2012

Life is Like a Box of... Crayons?

I began sorting our
"big box of crayons"

into color categories...

Blue/Green 
Yellow/Orange
Red/Purple/Pink 
Gray/Earth Toned 



crayons of

-every shape and size
-some still new, others used
-some with paper, others bare

Many were... 

broken, but useful


and when my son saw what I was doing,
he was eager to help,

so together

we began peeling the papers off of the
crayons and setting them to the side

He noted that some wrappers were
easy to remove, but others fought back!

 

Since my intention was to...
melt them for a purpose

I wanted them to blend together

So, the ones that...
refused to surrender

were tossed into the trash

I also soon discovered that not all were what they initially appeared to be 
(some of the purple were not really purple, they were more blue)

The wrapper had been misleading...
causing us to sort it into the wrong pile

and also that once all of the wrappers were removed
it was much harder to distinguish

the dark blue
from the purple
from the black

They almost all looked the same without their "label"

but their true colors could be revealed..
by simply applying pressure

showing that life is like a box of crayons!


God using each of our differing...

lives
abilities
talents
styles

to color His world 
as He daily... 

sorts
peels
tests
melts

us

to make something new!

(Click the links below to follow the crayon activities)

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