Tonight marks our third year having a Shepherd's Dinner a la Sally Clarkson! This year we had my mom and a few friends with us, it was so lovely!
Potato soup, homemade bread, apples, cheese and sparkling grape juice served as a candlelight living room picnic take such simple things and elevate them to memory and tradition status.
Our guests needed a few extra minutes to get here and that was divine timing because it gave me a few minutes to jot down enough ideas for each person to read a question or a passage of Scripture. I am going to log them here because tonight I was looking for what we did last time and I did not log it here so I need to remember this for the future! And perhaps someone else will want to use it!
There were 8 of us, so 8 slips of paper in a jar:
*talk about the imagery of the sheep and the Lamb!
*read John 1:29 - why is Jesus called the Lamb?
*use your senses to imagine/describe what it might have been like to be a shepherd
*read Psalm 23
*read Luke 2:8-21
*read John 10:11-16
*two shepherds became kings, compare them - what did they have in common, what was different
*read about the Good Shepherd in the Names of Jesus Advent devotional
2 comments:
Lovely tradition! I was glad to be part of it. :)
Monica, how cozy that must of been! Merry Christmas!
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