Who likes a fake? Nobody wants to be known as someone you can’t trust. A stroll through a store one day inspired this authenticity cartoon.
Every time I go to a department store, I wonder how many people are looking for something that just isn’t in all those goods. You know, things like love, peace, and authenticity. After all, money can’t buy love.
Do you remember all that writing we did in school? I would like to have thought they were bestselling papers. That thought inspired this bestselling report cartoon.
It would have been nice if that third-grade report on bees and honey made it on the New York Times Best Sellers list. But I feel it is best that the report is buried deep in a landfill.
One day in kids’ church, I taught a lesson on jealousy and envy. I used this green with envy cartoon to get the kids thinking about the subject.
The term, “green with envy,” could have gone back as far as the time of the Ancient Greeks. They associated a green complexion with sickness, fear, and jealousy. Later, William Shakespeare alluded to the term in Othello.
“O beware, my lord, of jealousy;
Iago in Othello
It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on.”
Our lesson was on envy versus contentment and how we get distracted from loving others and God when we are envious.
Most of us like to be acknowledged on our birthdays. On a Sunday, what would be better than a birthday chorale singing in our honor?
When I first posted this, it was my wife’s birthday and she was directing the children’s ministry at our church. Since her birthday fell on a Sunday that year, I got the kids in Happy Birthday to her.
When you work with kids, you know it’s going well when the janitor gets to deal with some mopped-up fun. That idea inspired this cartoon.
When I am leading large group activities on a Sunday morning, I smile when I realize the game is going to require blue tarps on the floor. I know the kids will get excited and the morning will be memorable. Bring on the rain ponchos, goggles, and a mop!