I found a talk on the BYU Speeches website. It was called "On Measuring Flour & Forgiveness" by Madison U. Sowell 1996. It had a poem called "Forgiveness Flour" by Marguerite Stewart. I brought a cup of flour and copies of the poem. We read the poem and then we discussed how certain words brought out how Kathleen felt. "Whisper of knocking", "standing in her shawl and her shame", "shrinking in the doorway". We talked about how she must have felt and how Joel symbolized Christ. We discussed how she would have felt after she received the huge bag of flour, and how her family would have felt when she brought it home or how they would have had to help her, the joy that this gift would have brought. We talked about how the wife would have felt. It was a very good lesson and I could tell from the expressions on their faces, that they really got it. I made flour sack pillows from from flour sack dish towels. I sewed a pocket on the back and laminated at copy of the poem and put it in the pocket ( I also attached a ribbon to both the pillow and the poem, so they wouldn't get separated) On the front I placed the the 3 x's for flour in purple embroidery floss and tied the corners of the pillows with purple ribbon. They turned out really cute and the girls loved them.