This week’s Godly Play lesson is The Flood and the Ark from The Complete Guide to Godly Play: Volume 2 by The Rev. Dr. Jerome Berryman Told by Godly Play® Trainer Susan Mallison.

In this week’s lesson, we now move with the people of God from the creation to the re-creation of God’s promise to Noah, to God’s family and to us.

After you’ve watched the story, you might like to ask the wondering questions again – pausing after each question to leave enough time for your child to ponder and respond, if they wish – if they don’t that’s okay! I would encourage you to accept and affirm all answers simply by repeating exactly what the child said.

The wondering questions are:

1.    I wonder what part of this story you liked best?  (Affirm by saying – “You liked XXXX best”). *where XXXX is whatever the child said
2.    I wonder what part the story is the most important? (Affirm by saying – “The most important part of the story is XXXX”.)  *where XXXX is whatever the child said
3.    I wonder if any part of the story is about you? (Affirm by saying – “The part of the story that is about you is “XXXXX”.  *where XXXX is whatever the child said
4.    I wonder if there is any part of the story we could leave out and still have all the story we need?  (Affirm by saying – “The part of the story we could leave out and still have all we need is XXXX”.)  *where XXXX is whatever the child said.

After the wondering, while we don’t direct children in their work, some suggestions might be:

·       That they draw or paint the part of the story they liked best
·       That they gather some of their toys to retell the story
·       That they draw some of the animals from the story
·       Or…..