God's Love
Recollection 1: Finding God in My Life
Rationale:
Life in prison may be one of the worse living conditions a person may ever experience. A person inside a prison is unable to have a property of their own; more or less they have no privacy; their space and actions are limited; and outside people perceive them negatively. These conditions may have made them hard on themselves and/or to other people. But these conditions could also enable them to learn to appreciate the blessings they receive no matter how small it may be.
This module aims to enable the inmates, especially the juvenile, to see the goodness of God despite the undesirable experiences that they have had. It hopes that through this module, after seeing how God works in their lives, the inmates’ lives will be fuller.
Objective: 1. To identify concrete people in the inmates’ lives where God manifested 2. To appreciate small blessings that come into their lives and be grateful despite everything that happened 3. To slowly open up themselves to a higher and great being called God.
Activity Flow:
TIME | ACTIVITY | RESOURCES/ MATERIALS | 10:00-10:10 | Part 1: Disposition Setting/ Preliminaries * Breathing and being aware of surrounding * Introduction | Music (if available) | 10:10-10:30 | Workshop: Grateful Heart * Drawing | Coloring materials, pentel pen, paper | 10:30-10:55 | Group Sharing and plenary sharing | Pentel pen, manila paper | 10:55-11:05 | Input: God after a Negative Experience * Metaphor of God as sprout | | 11:05-11:10 | Synthesis/ Closing Points * God in the people I meet * God in the food I eat * God in the chores I do | | 11:10-11:30 | Closing Ritual/ Reminders and Announcements | |
Disposition Setting * The facilitator will request the participants (Juveniles) to close their eyes. * The facilitator will guide the participants through the breathing exercise. * The facilitator will ask the participants to be aware of
Rationale:
Life in prison may be one of the worse living conditions a person may ever experience. A person inside a prison is unable to have a property of their own; more or less they have no privacy; their space and actions are limited; and outside people perceive them negatively. These conditions may have made them hard on themselves and/or to other people. But these conditions could also enable them to learn to appreciate the blessings they receive no matter how small it may be.
This module aims to enable the inmates, especially the juvenile, to see the goodness of God despite the undesirable experiences that they have had. It hopes that through this module, after seeing how God works in their lives, the inmates’ lives will be fuller.
Objective: 1. To identify concrete people in the inmates’ lives where God manifested 2. To appreciate small blessings that come into their lives and be grateful despite everything that happened 3. To slowly open up themselves to a higher and great being called God.
Activity Flow:
TIME | ACTIVITY | RESOURCES/ MATERIALS | 10:00-10:10 | Part 1: Disposition Setting/ Preliminaries * Breathing and being aware of surrounding * Introduction | Music (if available) | 10:10-10:30 | Workshop: Grateful Heart * Drawing | Coloring materials, pentel pen, paper | 10:30-10:55 | Group Sharing and plenary sharing | Pentel pen, manila paper | 10:55-11:05 | Input: God after a Negative Experience * Metaphor of God as sprout | | 11:05-11:10 | Synthesis/ Closing Points * God in the people I meet * God in the food I eat * God in the chores I do | | 11:10-11:30 | Closing Ritual/ Reminders and Announcements | |
Disposition Setting * The facilitator will request the participants (Juveniles) to close their eyes. * The facilitator will guide the participants through the breathing exercise. * The facilitator will ask the participants to be aware of