Week 836 · about 45 minutes
Lamentations 3
Lamentations 3 · Memory verse Lamentations 3:41
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Queues the lesson plan, this story’s coloring page (Lamentations 3), the matching word search and answer key (Lamentations 3 word search), the memory-verse tracer, and a parent slip.
Five-minute object lesson
Prop: a cup of water
Hold a cup of water. Read Lamentations 3 in about four minutes, stopping at Lamentations 3:41: “Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.” Ask, “What does this prop have to do with Lamentations 3?” Let two children answer, then say the memory verse together.
Story script
Lamentations 3 is a real chapter from the Old Testament. It starts, “I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.” That is not a motto invented for a poster. It is the first sentence a family hears when this page is opened at night.
Keep going a little further. The chapter also says, “To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,” Lamentations 3 opens with these words: “I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.” The line to keep is Lamentations 3:41: “Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.” Carry the word “lift” from that verse into the rest of the day.
The line worth learning out loud is Lamentations 3:41: “Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.” If the rest of the chapter feels crowded, hold that one sentence until the room is quiet.
What happens first in Lamentations 3? Then try this: Read “Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.” once more. What does it show you about God? You do not have to finish every verse. You can close the book after the memory verse and still have read the Bible together.
Group game
Walk the room as if you are moving through Lamentations 3. Every time you freeze, a child says one word from Lamentations 3:41. The last child says the whole verse.
Craft
On a US Letter sheet, draw one picture from Lamentations 3 and write Lamentations 3:41 under it. Send it home as tonight’s reminder, not as a decoration contest.
Memory verse
Lamentations 3:41
“Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.”
Take-home prayer
Father, thank you for Lamentations 3. Help us remember Lamentations 3:41 when we wake up, and teach us to notice you in an ordinary night. Amen.