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Artful Prayers....................

It has been on my heart for a while to get the youth involved in prayer and getting them thinking about their own individual prayer life, but also to show them that prayer does not need to be boring! Thanks to Chris for this excellent blog talking about artful prayers its really inspiring.


My favourite being Sand Prayers where you set a plastic container filled with sand. One at a time, invite each person to go to the container and trace in the sand a world or symbol of something for which they seek forgiveness. When they are finished, invite them to pass their hand over what they have drawn, obliterating it as a way of accepting God's forgiveness.

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