Special Guest Author: My Daughter
People can scoop stuff from your bucket and be mean to you. People can put stuff in your bucket by being kind. Being kind makes a persons bucket feel warm and filled up. If you say something mean to someone it feels like a hole in their bucket. You do not want to be the person taking stuff out of the bucket or making the hole in the bucket, because then you’ll put a hole in your own bucket. You want to be the person to put stuff into the bucket because then you will get filled up too. Sometimes you will not get a hole in your bucket, but you will get bad stuff in your bucket. Sometimes you will get nice things in your bucket. When someone is nice to you it makes you feel like they are giving you a present. If someone is mean to you it feels like they are taking something away from you.
Do you ever feel like people take stuff away from your bucket? Are you the person who takes stuff out or puts stuff in? Try to fill someones bucket today!
Power Verse:
Mathew 7:12 Do unto other’s as you would have them do unto you.
Talking Points: discuss the following questions with your children.
- What are some ways you can fill others bucket?
- How do you feel when others take from your bucket?
- How do you feel when people fill your bucket?
- What kind of things do you want others to put in your bucket?
Kid challenge: Find someone at school, home, or church and fill their bucket.
Child/Parent prayer: Lord fill our bucket with more of you. Make us more aware of others. Help us to notice when others have holes in their buckets. Give us the courage to fill their bucket. Teach us to think like you Lord. 
