Purpose: To see death as a time of new life.

Materials: Seeds and a plant with flowers.

Lesson: Boys and girls often hear a great deal about death and, perhaps, have even seen a person die. But it isn't very often that you hear anything about the meaning of this final event in life here.

An understanding of death is given to us in the symbol of the seed. Hundreds of years ago, Paul wrote, "But someone will ask, 'How are the dead raised up? With what kind of body do they come?' You foolish man! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies. And what you sow is not the body which is to be, but a bare kernel, perhaps of wheat or of some other grain. But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own bod…