Object: a large paper heart you can wear.

Boys and girls, we are beginning a brand new church year today. This is the first Sunday in Advent. Today we have a chance to make a brand new start. Sometimes we need a chance to do that, don't we. Sometimes we forget to do the good things we had decided we would do, and then we wish we had a chance to just start all over again.

(Put on the heart.) I decided to wear a big red heart today to show you what I mean. A big red heart reminds us of something we love. We see a lot of bumper stickers that say "I love ..." and then it will say "my dog" or "spaghetti" or "New York City" or "the…