Object: A broken shoestring.

Good morning, boys and girls. Have you ever had to be somewhere in such a hurry that when you were tying your shoestring it broke? I have seen children and grownups break their shoestrings and become very angry when they had to take the time to fix them. Some children I know just try to forget that they have broken the shoestring and go off running or walking with the broken shoestring. The first thing that you know they have a sore foot where their shoes have rubbed them in the wrong place.

I have a broken shoestring with me this morning, and I hope that you can understand the story that I am going to tell you. A broken shoestring is like two people who are unhappy with each other. They are angry…