Spiritism For Kids

por Marcela Prada

 

Theme: Collaboration, selfishness


The paper and the pencil


In the art room, materials were waiting for students to start the activities. The agitated pencil was tracing and strolling over an old notebook when it came across a very white sheet. As it picked it up, it heard an angry voice:

- Whoa! Leave me out of it. You can scratch the ignorant papers, but not me.

- And why not? - Asked the pencil.

- Look how white I am, I don’t want to get all dirty getting wrapped around.

Very surprised, the pencil explained that there is nothing dirty and wrong in the drawings. They are the expression of inspiration and the feelings of children. We have been made for this purpose and being chosen to represent a fine art is a privilege. The most important thing is not to be clean and intact, but to be useful.

They were in this discussion when a group of children arrived and began to read the instructions happily, before the beginning of the activities.

The pencil asked the paper sheet to observe how the children are happy with the drawings and how much affection the other sheets receive because they are useful.

- If you knew how rewarding it is to help, feel the touch of a helping hand and receive a loving poem! If you let yourself, you could be so happy, because life is too brief.

The sheet replied that it was fine this way, white and sheltered, and didn’t want to go through the dirty hands of everyone. And it still laughed at the pencil sentimentality.

- Do not insist! This subject is closed! - Finished the sheet.

At that moment, someone spills juice on the table and looks for something to clean it. In the absence of cloth or napkin, the boy took a paper, and someone shouted.

- Not my drawing!

- Neither mine!

- Much less mine!

The boy then took the white sheet and rubbed it over the juice before the eyes of the pencil.

- Poor paper sheet! What a sad end for those who cared so much about whiteness and purity! Thought the pencil.

We were made to live, to love and to be loved, and isolation removes the human being from all of this. Diving into life, planting smiles, teaching and learning, exposing yourself and taking risks with feelings and ideas is necessary, because life is made of constant reflection and learning.

 
Text by Lúcia Noll.

 

Translation:
Larissa Martine - larissa_am@hotmail.com


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