I ALWAYS WANT my Sunday School pupils to see how to apply the truths they learn in class to their own daily concerns. I opened the discussion in my class of seven-year-olds with the question, "Anyone have a problem they'd like to talk about?" There was silence and a pause, and then one child, head down, spoke firmly in a serious tone: "Well, I have two problems, and I don't want to talk about them. I think about them too much already. It makes me too sad—I can't talk about it."
So I said, "You know, we come to Sunday School to learn about how good God is and how He takes care of us and everyone. And we learn to shine the light of Truth on our troubles. That way we turn problems into possibilities. What happens to problems, then? They shrink and shrink until they disappear.
"Why would you want to let the problems alone? If you ignore them, they don't sweep away. They get bigger—like dust bunnies under the bed if you don't sweep them away. Haven't we learned that problems are just a bluff, saying that God isn't here or won't or can't help us? But God is Love. Can Love forget us?"
