During Lent we invite the children to say a prayer to God when life gets tough.

'Lots of things may have made you sad, and you know what, it’s okay to feel that way.  Jesus felt sad too. God understands our sadness. The Bible says, 'You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle.' – Psalm 56:8 Take a tear drop bead and think about something that has made you sad this past year. Drop the ‘tear’ into the big bottle.  If you want to, you can write or draw your sad thing onto a big tear drop and stick it onto the cross as a prayer.'