Object: a scar or callous on your body.

Boys and girls, I want to show you my . I got this when I was (tell them the circumstances). Have any of you a scar or a callous? How did you get yours? (Let them tell you. You may want to put a time limit on this.)

Now that we've looked at our callouses and our scars, we're ready for a story. Once upon a time there was a young man whose father gave him a hard job to do. The young man knew the job would be hard and he didn't want to do it because he wasn't sure he could do it. But his father said it had to be done and that his son was just the person to do it. So the young man s…