The Good Shepherd: A Meditative Family Devotional on the 23rd Psalm

Contrary to popular belief meditation is not just used in monasteries and desert places. No, meditation can also be child’s play. Children can engage in meditation more easily than adults. They do it on and off all day long. Have you ever witnessed a child so enthralled in play that they seemed to be in another world? It is my experience that all children go through a stage where they are dogs and want to eat under the table at every meal and insist on being called Fido. They are meditating on being dog, but meditating none the less. Play is meditative for children. Imaginative play is a way of catapulting them into the presence of our imaginative, creative, story-telling God.

We will be using the medium of wooden toys and guided play to invite our children into the truths of the 23rd Psalm.