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*image: Holy Week: An Emotional Primer

DISCUSS TOGETHER
What does sad mean? How does your face look when you’re sad? Where do you feel sadness in your body?

READ TOGETHER
Younger kids: Read the Bible passage from the illustration above.
Older kids: Help kids open their Bibles and read Luke 23:50-56 (NIRV)

RESPOND TOGETHER.
- What makes you feel sad? What do you think makes God sad? What would it look like to be sad together with God?   
- Discuss, draw or write about it.
- Pray together.

ADDITIONAL RESOURCES

For kids:
- Douglas Talks | Give Your Worries to God 
- Science of Sad
- Holy Week: An Emotional Primer, author Danielle Hitchen & illustrator Jessica Blanchard

For adults:
Quick reads:
- Covid-19: Help for Grief, Bill Gaultiere
- Christianity Offers No Answers About the Coronavirus. It's Not Supposed To, N.T. Wright

Go deeper:
- The Sanctuary Course, offered for free until April 18
- The Whole Brain Child, by Daniel J. Siegel, M.D. and Tina Payne Bryson, Ph.D.

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