Purpose: To help children to persevere when faced with a problem.

Material: A nut or two. A treat, to share, made with nuts.

Lesson: This morning I want to show you something that we can find on certain trees at this time of the year. They are called nuts. A nut is an interesting thing. It is a seed with a hard shell and what is inside the shell is usually good to eat.

The nut is a symbol of something we face all the time in life. We sometimes call a difficult person a "nut" because the reason for his or her behavior is h…