Object: a wristwatch or a pocket watch on a chain.

Good morning, boys and girls, and how are you today? Did you get up this morning filled with God's love and joy? Are you very glad to be alive? Is that the way that you got up this morning? Very good! When you got up this morning, did you also thank God for being free? [Wait for some answers.] What does it mean to be free?

Is free being loose? Suppose I grab [Take one of the boys who wouldn't be frightened] Jim and just hold him so that he cannot get away, or hold Susan's hands so tightly that she cannot move them and then let them go, are they now free? Is that what we mean by being free? To be free is more than being loose.

Let me show you a little experiment. Here is my good old faithful…