A Storytelling Pilgrimage Through the Christmas Story
Dina Widlake shares details in a post at Building Faith for creating a devotional walk through the Christmas story. She suggests including QR Codes on the signs in order to include artwork, music, and video links to encourage reflection. The walk can be indoors or outdoors, one day or all season long, and can include activities and crafts as well as reading and reflection. She also notes that there is a valuable experience also for the team that creates the meditative experience for parishioners.
Ms WIdlake writes:
Storytelling can take many forms: oral, digital, and written.
A pilgrimage, as the Episcopal Church defines it, is “a journey taken with a religious or devotional intention. Pilgrimages are typically made to shrines, holy places, or locations of religious significance. They may be made as prayers of thanksgiving, penitence, intercession, or petition.”
Both storytelling and pilgrimage are meant to be experiences of the heart. When the two are combined and interwoven with our biblical stories, surprising pathways open for us to experience God, to embody the story, and to link God’s story to our lived experience. This kind of storytelling by pilgrimage can open powerful pathways for a transformation of the heart.
For Advent through Epiphany, consider creating a storytelling pilgrimage through the Christmas story as told in the gospels of Matthew and Luke.
A sample PDF guidebook is attached to the linked article, as well as suggestions on building a team to create your pilgrimage.
