Object: A yardstick and a picture of a groundhog.

Lesson: Overcoming fear.

Text: "O Most High ... when I am afraid, I put my trust in you ... You have kept count of my tossings; put my tears in your bottle. Are they not in your record? ... In God, whose word I praise, in the LORD, whose word I praise, in God I trust; I am not afraid ... For you have delivered my soul from death, and my feet from falling, so that I may walk before God in the light of life."

"I'm sure you've noticed that I've brought a yardstick with me today." The children's heads nod affirmatively as their eyes watch the yardstick to see what I intend to do with it. "I brought this to give you some idea of how long twenty inches is. From that end of the yardstick to where I have my thumb is twenty inches." The children …