Tree Outside My Window

Materials
paper and pencil for each person

Activity
Asked each child/ youth to draw a picture of 'The tree outside my window'.

Debrief
Though the same instruction is given to everyone, the pictures they drew will be different – some will draw a view from a window, others will draw mountains or birds or animals along with the tree, etc.

Application
This activity demonstrates how each one of us has a different point of view about any given thing. We have different backgrounds. We all have different levels of comprehension and different ways of looking at the same thing. We must be sensitive to the fact that God made each of us unique and we are different from the others in our own way. But in the body of Christ we all come together in unity. As we work together out differences become strengths. As we combine our various perspectives we are able to see all of life and God's work in our lives more clearly (1 Corinthians 12)