Just a burp.
In Sunday school we read Yertle the Turtle by Dr. Seuss. Yertle decided one day that he wanted to be the greatest turtle not just of his pond, but of all he could see. Being king he ordered the turtles to stand on one another’s backs, raising him higher and higher and letting him see more and more. Thousands of turtles high, Yertle was a very great king. Then one day Mack, a turtle on the bottom of the stack, burped, and Yertle’s kingdom crumbled.
We realized that basing our success on a stack of turtles wasn’t the best plan of action (kind of like the man who built his house on sand). We cut some turtles out of poster board and wrote on them some of the things we shouldn’t build our life on, for example, one turtle was “clothes,†another turtle was “popularity,†another “grades,†etc.
So what should we build our lives on? We went out and collected rocks (like the man who built his house on rock) and wrote on them some better things to build our lives on. Then we made an inuksuk, an Artic Inuit rock art form, out of our rocks.
See the photos here: www.flickr.com/photos/tbarnes