What’s in your hands?

However insignificant you may feel it is, whatever you have to give to God is enough, says Gemma Hunt

If I were to ask you to think of an object, what might you come up with? Something you can see in front of you? An item in your bag? A treasured trinket in your bedroom or your favourite childhood toy? 

This was the question I asked a class of nine-year-olds recently as I led them in a creative story writing workshop. It came after I’d asked them to think of a name, and then a place. After the name ‘Jessie’ was offered and a bakery suggested as the location, the child I asked to choose an object went blank. Her classmates started to whisper suggestions: a dinosaur, a bike, a hair clip…but she froze. I encouraged her to think of something that she could hold in her hands – something special to her. Still, she said nothing.