Jesus was astonished at their lack of belief and did not stay in that place long, healing only a few sick people.
In fact, those who doubted Jesus did not really know him at all. Jesus had an understanding about God he had been born with- he was, after all, sent by God.

We thought about the way we often assume we know everything there is to know about the people we meet every day. We fit them into our own ideas about life. Secretly, we may struggle if we guess they can do wonderful things, because that may make us feel a little jealous. But we are missing out on many surprises and gifts in our lives by tying others down in this way, so they do not share their unique gifts with us.

We divided up into small groups in order to spend time getting to know each other better. We had to find out things we never knew before about each other. These are some of the gifts we discovered:
Liam likes to think;
Ethan likes to laugh;
Ben and Gearge like to play football;
Ethan R is good at impressions;
Billy is good at magic tricks;
Grace has read 12 books in one day;
Zoe is good at climbing on her climbing frame;
Eve is good at hanging spoons on her nose;
Stephie is good at handstands;
Gerard is good at driving diggers;
Dempsey is good at doing tricks on his trampoline;
Bradie is good at looking after animals;
Rhain can touich her nose with her tongue;
Rumbie goes modelling;
Courtney goes to Brownies;
Shivani has really dark brown hair (NOT BLACK);
Amelia has had 5 cats;
Monica used to help people on her street with the water pumps.

What wonderful gifts!

Dear God,
Thank you for all the wonderful people in our lives. Please help us to realise they are all sent to help us get to know you.
May we set people free to do God's work by listening and letting them be themselves.
Amen