Object: Some pumpkin pie or some Thanksgiving dessert.

Good morning, boys and girls. How many of you had a great Thanksgiving? (Let them answer.) Isn't Thanksgiving a wonderful time? All of your family is home together, the food is great, there is no school for a couple of days, and everyone seems to be especially happy. It is good to remember how good God is to us and to share the things that God gives us with one another.

I brought along something with me this morning that we had left from Thanksgiving to help us learn something about the way God works in this world. I have what is left of our pumpkin pie. Pie is our dessert on Thanksgiving, and we just love it. I can smell it all day long as it is being baked, and I can hardly wait to eat it. But we never get the pie first. We don't e…