Confirmation Class - talking about God.

A member of our church who is a 4th grade teacher (Jane McAllister) often uses a poem called "I am..." to help her children describe who they are to thier classmates at the beginning of the school year. She suggested that we might want to use this poem in confirmation class to help us describe God.

So we took her poem, revised it a bit and at the end of the class invited the confirmation students to journal on this poem. Here it is:

God is...
God wonders...
God hears...
God sees..
God wants...
God is...
God feels...
God touches...
God worries...
God cries out..
God is...
God understands...
God says...
God dreams...
God tries...
God hopes...
God is...

The point of this poem is for each of us to finish the sentences to help us describe who God is in our midst. By knowing our own images of God, we are able to claim our relationship in more intimate and deeper ways.

After that confirmation class, we invited parents and confirmation mentors to write thier own version of this poem and then share it with their confirmation students. Here's what Bill Avey, one of our confirmation mentors wrote.

God is...love
God wonders...why
God hears...us
God sees..how things are and how they should be
God wants...us to have joy
God is...love
God feels...us
God touches...everything
God worries...not
God cries out...to us
God is...love
God understands...all of us
God says...I am with you
God dreams...of peace
God tries...to help us grow
God hopes...for us
God is...love

So... who is God to you? What images come to mind, what hopes are revealed as you answer these questions. I invite your responses in the form of this poem or otherwise.