Tag: Rest

Opening Activity Part 1 Set Up: As you gather with people, have a jar of gummy worms and a jar of honey at each table being used for this activity. Hand out at least two gummy worms, if not more, and preferably blue in keeping with the Advent season. The jar of honey is only for decoration purposes, reminding everyone of John the Baptist’s meal of honey with locusts. Invite all participants to think of each gummy worm as a physical reminder of something that they have done over which they feel grubby. They do not have to share what…

  By the seventh day God had finished the work he had been doing; so on the seventh day [God] rested from all his work.   Here in Genesis 2:1, we learn about the continuing of creation, flora and fauna, rest from the six days God created the skies and the earth and humanity.     We’ve heard this Scripture countless times, in pithy sentences, in expectation for an abstract time in the future where we would pause and reflect. But, when the appointed time comes, many of us continue ticking things off the to-do list, doing one last thing…