Goal:
To consider some ideas about the nature of prayer.
Preparation:
Read Background for Being With God in Prayer.
Activities:
Introduce the story:
In our Unitarian Universalist church people have many different ideas about God. For some people God is whats really real, for some God is whats most important, and for some God is whats most mysterious. But there are also some UUs who have ideas about whats most real and most important and most mysterious but they dont call those things God. They use other words, like Universe, Life, or Love. In our church we each decide for ourselves which words to use and what we believe.
The stories Im going to read were written to help kids decide for themselves what they thing about God. Heres one of them.
Read: Being With God in Prayer.
Discuss:
What do you do when you have a problem?
Have you ever shared a problem with God? Did you ever get help for a problem in a dream?
What are the 3 things the story suggests we remember about prayer?
Make up a body prayer:
In the story the girl mentioned that she had seen people use their bodies in different ways when they prayed. Have you ever seen this? Lets try some of the ways weve seen other people use their bodies when they pray.
Discuss what it feels like to do these different body motions. Try making up your own body movements to express a prayer. Talk about what you are saying with your body.
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