Find an object that represents you. It can be a photograph, or a toy, or a rock, or a twig – whatever speaks to you. Then bring your object to class and come prepared to tell your group the following:
1- What is it?
2- If this object could speak, what story would this object tell us about you?
3- How do you experience God in this object?
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Not sure how to leave a picture on these blogs, but here is my homework:
1. What is it?
This is a cross that my Grandmother Bessie Fike (father’s mother) ‘tatted’. She gave it to me (can’t remember the actual receiving event … it may have been post mortem), and I don’t know if she made it for me or had made it long before me as a random craft.
2. If this object could speak, what story would this object tell us about you?
It would tell you how important family is to me: family here and family gone … a part of me forever with wonderful memories of love, lessons and the grieving for lost opportunities for relationship now. I imagine my grandmother tatting this with love in her heart, as she was a strong Christian from the Brethren denomination. I ponder about all she and my other relatives did to pave the way for their descendents and what family meant to them.
Family here is not only the current blessings of parents, siblings, husband and children; but created families at church, my neighborhood, work and all kinds of organizations.
3. How do you experience God in this object?
I experience the love of God, the family of God, the grace and acceptance of God. And I pray that my family can experience the same through me.
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