Church Celebrations

Gratitude 365  Day #223

Today was the Blessing of the Backpacks Service at our church. Kids brought their backpacks forward, and then the minister called anyone who worked in the schools to come forward also, and she had the congregation bless all of us and the school year ahead. Pretty sure I wasn't the only teacher who needed that.

I was especially grateful for a number of children who sang "This Little Light of Mine." The children's sermon was about letting the light of God shine through them in the coming school year, and then they each received a flashlight before they treated us to their song. There was a lot of light shining in our church this morning, and it didn't all come from flashlights. (Though there was plenty of that, too.)