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Good morning everyone.

It's lovely to be able to talk to you on

this wonderful Wednesday.

I was worried it was going to be a wet

Wednesday but the rain has stopped so I've decided it

is wonderful Wednesday today.

So today I'm going to talk to you about one

of the stories of Jesus's life as we know, Easter

has been and gone, jesus rose from the tomb and

we're getting ready for the period of time before he

sends back to Heaven.

So today I am going to tell you about one

of the miracles that he performed.

Now. I am going to be looking down today because

I am going to read the version of this story.

So we know that Jesus lived round about 2000 years

ago and in this time there were many illnesses that

that couldn't be healed because the medicines didn't exist at

that time.

As we know with the current pandemic.

When coronavirus first arrived, we didn't have vaccines for it.

And that's why people are only being vaccinated now because

the scientists have developed that medication that protection from it.

But in this time, 2000 years ago, very few medicines

were in existence.

And leprosy was one of those illnesses.

Now you may know this story already, but I don't

believe I've told you this version in previous years.

So it's a skin disease and it's infectious, healthy people

will really frightened of catching this disease.

Um so if you have leprosy, you were made to

live away from everybody else.

So the story I'm going to tell you is a

bible story.

Um and in the story a small boy called Ruben

meets a man who is literally skipping and jumping for

joy. Okay, the man he has met was the man

the man has met, jesus and clearly something amazing has

happened. So this story is called the man who said

thank you, and it's by Catherine Costa Rubin.

Came out of his house with a big basket and

a long, long list of instructions from his mother of

things to buy at the market.

Please don't belong!

She shouted after him.

I'm waiting for that flower to make some bread.

Suddenly, it seemed from nowhere a man came hearing around

the corner, knocking Ruben basket and all straight to the

ground. Hey, steady on spluttered Ruben as he brushed the

dust off his clothes and then chased after the basket

which had been caught in the wind.

But the man who was thin and dressed only in

rags, had hardly noticed Reuben.

He was so desperate to get where he was going.

He was jumping and skipping and leaping, throwing his hands

in the air and shouting at the top of his

voice, jesus, jesus, wait for me, wait for me!

Jesus Ruben knew that name, Jesus was the miracle worker

who had been traveling around the nearby villages and towns.

He was the one that Reuben had seen baptist in

the river Jordan last year.

Could it be that Jesus had come to his village?

This was all far more exciting than going to the

market to buy flour for his mother, Ruben grabbed the

basket and made his way after the man.

It was quite easy to catch him up because he

kept stumbling and tripping over in his eagerness to find

jesus as they rounded a bend in the road.

There was jesus talking and laughing with a crowd of

followers. He always seemed to make everyone happy.

The man in rags gathered his strength and made a

final dash.

He fell at jesus feet.

Thank you Martha, thank you, Jesus looked down and he

smiled. He was pleased to see him.

Where are the other 9?

He asked.

Is it only you who came back to me to

give thanks for your healing?

The man looked around and shrieked.

Jesus smiled at the man in rags.

Once again it was a smile that seemed to light

up everything in sight.

Get up!

He said to the man, Your faith has healed and

saved you.

And then as quickly as they appeared, jesus and his

friends disappeared around the next bend in the road and

all became quiet and still.

The man sank down in the shade of a large

tree. He seemed exhausted, but was grinning from ear to

ear. Reuben went to join him.

Yeah, the man explained I've been sick for a really

long time.

I had to leave my home because I caught leprosy.

It's a dreadful disease and very infectious.

I went to live with nine other people with the

same disease.

We all came to jesus together barely an hour ago

and begged him to make us well again.

We'd heard about other people had healed and we knew

he could do it, but Jesus told us to go

on our way.

At first we were disappointed, we thought nothing had changed,

but then bit by bit we noticed our strength coming

back. The sore places of skin started to heal before

our very eyes and everything began to look as if

it did before we were ill.

It was a miracle.

We were so overjoyed.

Now we can return home to all the people who

love us and all the people we've missed so dearly.

My wife and my Children will be so happy and

so surprised.

But first, even before going home to see my family,

I had to thank jesus Ruben was astounded.

What a story.

Wait until he told his mom.

Oh no!

His mom Ruben grabbed the shopping basket.

I have to go.

He splitters.

He scrambled to his feet, taking off at top speed

in the direction of the market.

He shouted behind him as he ran, Thank you for

sharing your story.

It's awesome.

Okay, I'm going to ask a couple of questions now

and I want you to just spend some time thinking

your teacher might want to pause me because I'm going

to ask the questions one after the other.

So you've got time to reflect on what you've heard.

So why do you think that jesus asked the whereabouts

of the other nine men that he had healed?

Do you think it was because he wanted all of

them to say thank you.

Okay, my next question does joy always result in thankfulness?

Yeah. All of the 10 men who have been cured

of their leprosy must be filled with joy, but there

were nine that didn't come back to say thank you.

What do you think?

Does joy always result in thankfulness?

Yeah. Okay.

I'm going to say thank you prayer in just a

moment to finish our collective worship today, but I'm going

to start our prayer in a slightly different way because

I want to think about joy because we have joy

in our lives all the time and sometimes they're from

quite ordinary things.

I'm going to share some things with you, three objects

that bring joy to my life.

Now I'm going to hold up my cup here.

So Children, you know, you often see me if you

can pass my my office, there is a cup of

tea on my desk, small everyday thing but fills me

with great joy um and calmness that I can hold

the warm hot cup of tea.

Um and feel happy brings me great happiness at the

moment. My tea cup is empty.

So after this collective worship I should I should probably

get a cup of tea and share that small moment

of joy.

My second item, those of you that are at the

gate first thing in the morning you know very well

is this bunch of please?

Okay and these are my school keys, The keys to

the school.

And it does have, I put them on their special

keys and I don't know if it reads forwards or

backwards to you, but that one says Jamie on there.

So this was a present.

This key ring was a present from my nieces.

My nieces made it for me.

But that stuff fills me with a little bit of

joy because I remember I'm loved by my nieces.

But the reason these keys bring me joy is because

they remind me of all of you.

It brings me great joy to know that I am

responsible for all of you for all the Children in

our school.

And that's a very precious thing for me to be

able to do.

So I treat these keys just as I treat you

with great care.

And that brings me great joy.

Now my last item, those of you who are Eagle.

I might have noticed that I've taken my wedding rings

off today.

So I've got three rings that I normally wear on

on my ring finger here.

And this ring, it's a very tiny one.

But this tiny ring is so precious to me and

brings me great joy because it's my wedding ring.

So it reminds me that I am really loved by

my husband and cared for and I have a partner

in my life forever.

And that's what the circle circle is eternal.

But there is another reason that this ring is very

very special to me because it reminds me of my

name, me and now this sounds quite funny.

Why would this remind me of my grandma?

Um It brings me great joy and it's from sadness

comes great joy.

My nanny died before I got married and I was

left a little bit of money.

So I was very lucky that mr pardon?

I bought our wedding rings with the little bit of

money that was left to me by my nanny.

So it reminds me of my my my special partnership

with my husband.

But it also reminds me of my nanny and those

of you have heard me talk about her before, you

know she is my absolute hero.

So those three items, cup of tea keys and my

wedding ring are three things that I see every day.

But they do bring great joy to me.

I'm going to pop my rings back on.

So before I start the prayer, I would like to

think like you to think if there are any everyday

objects that bring you great joy.

So we'll just take a few moments and then I'll

say a prayer that I'd like you to listen to

with care.

And then at the end you can say amen if

you agree, wow right.

Dear God, thank you for the small things in our

life that we see every day that when we really

think about them bring us great joy.

Whether it's the cup of tea that brings us some

calm. The keys that unlocked special places the items that

are special to us because of the person they remind

us of.

We thank you for the many joys in our lives

and ask that you help us to remember them on

this day and every day.

Oh man.

Okay. Thank you for listening everyone and I look forward

to talking to you tomorrow.

Bye bye for now.

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