Purpose: To stress the importance of accepting help when it is needed.

Materials: Two shoes of obviously different sizes.

Lesson: This morning, before you came to church, you did something very important. I can see that you all did this important thing just by looking at you. You all put on a pair of shoes. But as I look at your shoes and at my shoes, I see that there are all sizes and kinds of shoes. One of the most important things about a pair of shoes is that they should fit. I could not wear your shoes and you would have a hard time walking very far in my shoes. As you can see, shoes are made in all sizes. Therefore, it is necessary that a person obtain ones that fit if they are to be suitable for wearing.

There is a saying that people will sometimes use about shoes that applies to…