I'm starting another new series here on The Parsonage Family, basically designed to showcase random stuff worth sharing. Like the name indicates, Show and Tell is reminiscent of that classic kindergarten activity where you bring in something from home to show your classmates and tell them all about it.Blogging in general is more or less just a giant exercise in show and tell, so I guess you could say this series is basically an excuse to share more random things than I usually would! Maybe a recipe I've tried or a new craft project, or some other fun thing. I'll invite you to tell about any random thing you want in the comments too!
First off, allow me to introduce our Show and Tell mascot, Sunny. Sunny is a yellow Kennel Kuddlee (a knock off of Pound Puppies, I guess) from the 1980s. I loved Sunny and even wrote his name on our deck in black crayon when I was five, and held him by the ear with my teeth when climbing on the playground monkey bars. I took Sunny for Show and Tell every week in kindergarten. We had weekly themes, like "something blue" or "something green," so I would tie a different colored ribbon around Sunny's neck each week so he would fit the rules. Mrs. Cruickshank finally sent a note home saying I needed to bring something other than Sunny for Show and Tell.
Justice for Sunny! He can appear every week here on The Parsonage Family with no teacher to tell him otherwise :0)
But just in case Mrs. Cruikshank is looking down on us (we were her last class before she died of breast cancer) and wishing we'd share something else, I will point you over to Ministry Matters to see a series of collages I made in 2006 for a Stations of the Cross worship experience at Vanderbilt Divinity School. Matt and I have used these for Holy Week in various churches every year since then, and I finally photographed them so they could be shared more widely and projected during worship.
Here's a sampling of my favorite stations, and you can download all of them, with corresponding scriptures, at Ministry Matters.
Have a blessed Holy Week!
1 comment:
I know practically nothing about the Stations of the Cross. My first encounter with the Stations was when I was in my early twenties and we lived near a large Vietnamese Catholic church that has huge statues of the Stations around the perimeter of their property. Every time I drove by I thought, "Why do they have so many statues of different people with the cross?".
I never knew the answer until you blogged about them during Holy Week 2010 when your congregation was meeting in a Catholic church building.
Even though I'm still pretty clueless, I do think that your representations are beautiful.
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