Godly Play with Seniors

04/16/2021

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02/20/2021

12/23/2020

My wonderful seniors brought tears to my eyes after I finished the Advent story. One of them said that when we’ve had a story in the Chapel, when you come back later, you can still feel the story.

12/10/2020

Told part of the Advent series to my circle of nursing home seniors this morning. Of course there are no wondering questions, but we sat around and reflected together after the story. One woman said that maybe the road to Bethlehem was a symbol for the road to heaven - the journey to salvation. We talked about being on a journey of faith that leads us to the Christ child.

Later, we were talking about Christmas not being about trees and presents and tinsel. She had missed the first week of Advent, so she hadn’t heard about “missing the mystery.” She wondered if people did that because they felt a pull, an urge, an awareness of the mystery and that all the fuss was about trying to answer that urge to come close to the mystery. They know something amazing is in the air and they have to respond to it. They just don’t know how to respond.

I love those conversations.

09/22/2020

Traveling with the Ark and the Tent. Since we can’t come together right now to hear Godly Play stories in the nursing home where I’m the chaplain, I’m taking them on the road. (The brown burlap from one of the parables substituted for the desert.) I love telling this story, and telling it one-on-one was powerful. We’ve had some good conversations about how we can take church with us, since we can’t go to church or come together for worship right now.