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REST STOP #4: Prayer Stations
The following suggestions may be used for your own prayer time with God or as an interactive prayer activity for a spiritual retreat.
Prayer stations are interactive prayer rituals. Participants follow instructions found in folder. Since no leader is needed, the prayer stations can be done at any time. For retreats, prayer stations should be encouraged, but left as optional activities.
These prayer stations work well at a retreat setting.
1 “Letting Go.” Participants are encouraged to name their worries and anxieties. They throw a rock into a tub of water (or a natural body of water) as a way to give these worries over to God. I use a poem found on page 91 from the book Alternative Worship: Resources from and for the Emerging Church, Jonny Baker and Doug Gay, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books, 2003.
2 “Hurts.” Participants write or draw on paper hurts that have been part of their lives. This includes both hurts committed against them and hurts they have inflicted on others. They throw these hurts into a wastebasket. I use the poem from prayer station 4 from The Prayer Path: A Christ-Centered Labyrinth Experience, Jonny Baker, Steve Collins and Kevin Draper, Loveland, CO: Group Publishing, 2000. Note that I don’t use the stations as part of a labyrinth per se, but take the various stations and do my own thing with them.
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