This photograph of a lovely tree from the churchyard reminded me of the Psalmist saying 'hide me in the cleft of your rock' although obviously this is a cleft of a tree but similar. We did some RB on psalms and participants had quite a lot to offer. There were bits of psalms that were important to them:
I will lift mine eyes to the hills
God is our strength and refuge
The Lord is my Shepherd
You put me together in my mother's womb
and so on....
There were also less confortable but remembered ones:
My God my God why have you forsaken me?
May the wicked perish and of course the one about dashing the babies' heads against the rocks.
Some psalms we remembered had neither negative nor positive emotions attached. These usually contained some sort of memorable image like 'the oil running down Aaron's beard'.
Then we made up some music to go with psalms both those remembered and read from print.
We also did some RB with the gospel, remembering Jesus saying 'if you have ears'. How many ears can you remember from the gospel? Don't forget the one that gets cut off in the Garden of Gethsemane. We did some 'frozen poses' to remember these stories: think of a story and then freeze yourself in a position that reminds you of part of the story - sorry no photos of this!
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