Willow Orchard Friends
Growing in the Fruit of the Spirit
Bramble Bear
Fruit of the Spirit: Love
About Bramble
Bramble Bear is big-hearted, berry-loving, and always ready for an orchard adventure. He enjoys gathering blueberries, spending time with his friends, and finding ways to make someone else’s day a little brighter.
Bramble is learning that love is more than something we feel. Love is something we show—through sharing, helping, listening, forgiving, and choosing to care for others.
Growing in Love
Love is the first Fruit of the Spirit named in Galatians 5:22–23. It grows in our hearts when we choose to care for others the way God teaches us to.
Sometimes love looks big, but often it grows through very small choices: sharing what we have, including someone who feels left out, helping without being asked, or putting another person’s needs before our own.
Bramble is discovering that when love is shared, there is always enough to go around.
Read Bramble’s Story
Bramble’s Best Berries
A Story About Love
Bramble has been waiting all summer for Berry Day, and he is sure his perfect blueberries will win the Golden Spoon.
But when Hazel Hedgehog loses the berries she needs, Bramble faces an important choice: keep the berries he worked so hard to gather—or give his very best to a friend who needs them more.
Through one generous choice, Bramble discovers that sometimes the sweetest thing we can grow is love.
Talk
What is one way someone has shown
love to you?
Think
Bramble sometimes has to choose between what he wants and what would help a friend. What loving choice could you make today?
Grow
Choose one small act of love to do for someone—share, help, encourage, include, or listen.
Pray
Dear God, thank You for loving me. Help me notice
ways I can show Your love to others today. Amen.
Talk & Grow Together