Rosa Parks Autumn Activities Highlight Harvest and Gratitude

Recent garden and art activities offer myriad opportunities for our children to celebrate the beauty of this season. The children love harvesting the golds, rusts and crimsons of the  Peace garden; they glow with delight as they decorate for Halloween and paint pumpkins with feelings. They reflect on the long shadows of this season and the great harvest moon. Cooler temperatures, beautiful trees, mists and frost revitalize spirits. As the harvest season moves to Thanksgiving season, memories of current and past gratitude develop into prayers and words of thanks to family and friends. Children and their families bake bread at the soup kitchen and offer each other the leaven of love. A smile, a kind word, some special food all become food for love, food for peace. (We hope our readers, also, have a harvest from all that they planted last summer. We pray that all of us can be bread for each other.)

Author: Sister Nancyann Turner
Capuchin Soup Kitchen Rosa Parks Children Program Manager