Time for All Ages Stories

Before we get started, there’s a word I want to make sure everyone knows. The word consequence. Who can tell me what that word means?

That’s right. It’s the result when something happens. It’s the result of an Action. Consequences aren’t always bad, although we usually think they are.   So now that we’ve learned what […]

I Just Need to be Sad By Tim Atkins

Once upon a time there was a little girl named Sarah, all of eight years old. Sarah was normally a happy girl – she had great friends, loved school, loved her family, even her annoying older brother, and especially loved her pet kitty.

But, today, Sarah was sad. […]

Breath of Gratitude by Tim Atkins

Originally written for and told at the November 16, 2014 worship on Gratitude at the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship

[Note: Begin with a heart shaped balloon that’s inflated, but not tied shut.]

Lee was having a no good very bad day. He could feel his heart slowly deflating after each and every […]

[This story was written for Ingathering Sunday, 2014 at the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship.  It was immediately followed by our Water Communion.]

My earliest memory is drifting up through the sky, heading further and further up.  I couldn’t see anyone else that looked like me, but I could somehow feel that the sky was full of […]

I’d like to call any children who feel willing to come on up and join me up here.  Come on up.

Today we have a very special item in our very special Mystery Box.  This item is going to teach us more about sanctuaries.  Who wants to guess the Mystery Object in the Mystery Box […]

Insides Out, by Tim Atkins.  Originally told at the Morristown Unitarian Fellowship on October 11, 2015, for a service on authentic living.  Note, there are three props needed – grocery bags that you can easily turn inside out during the telling.  Pictures of these, the outside and the inside, are in this post.

Lee was […]