How Do You Make A Prayer Journal For Children?
Prayer journals can be effective ways for children to learn how to reflect on their spiritual lives. Prayer journals can be as simple or as intricate as you like. Giving your children a way to focus their prayer lives and their reflections that lead into and out of prayer bring vitality and purpose. Preparing your child’s prayer journal brings you together in this important life activity. Divide a prayer journal into segments. If, for example, you want to instill prayerful reflection in your child on a regular basis, divide his journal into weekly or daily reflections. Encourage your child to enter the date and day so he can look back on the nature of his thoughts within a time framework. Enter a biblical passage to jump-start each day’s or week’s reflections. Take the time to write or paste from a computer document Bible passages to guide your child’s reflections and to give her focus in her prayer life. Catholic and Episcopal parents or religious educators can refer to their church’s