In the past few weeks and for the next few weeks, we’ve been looking at prayer. I know what you are thinking, fun and prayer rarely go together. But I should rephrase that to say that we are creatively looking at some verses that teach us a lot about prayer.
Last week, we had students paint pictures to describe the scenes in Matthew 6:5-6. Someone doing something in private. Someone standing on a street corner. A hypocrite. We got some good drawings and we got some bad ones. But it did drive home the point when we got to the passage.
This week, in order to drive home the point of using few words in prayer as opposed to lots and lots… I’m asking students to come up with Haiku. (You know, the old 12 syllable variety of Japanese poetry.) They will have a few minutes to come up with a haiku that describes some common scenes in their lives. Junior high dances. Playing video games. A clothing drive. Getting dumped by your girlfriend. My dog ran away from home. Deer hunting.
I’ll have to post some of my favorites!
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