G is for Godly Play

These questions are posted in the 2nd-4th grade room at my church. We recently implemented a new way of teaching/worshiping/ministering called Godly Play. Since I'm just an occasional volunteer, I have only experienced a little bit of it, but I just did some googling to learn more and found this video that sums it up really well.

These questions made me pause when I first saw them:

What does this mean for my life?
How am I connected to God's big story?
Will I think or act differently now that I know this?

I think we would do well to answer these in our grown-up conversations about Jesus. Maybe I should be dismissed with the rest of the children during church to go experience God through storytelling and objects each Sunday. This may be a reoccurring theme in my desire to know God- I once took a children's bible from a toddlers room after putting him to bed because the story was so simple and beautiful and I wanted to keep reading!

If our children come to know the Lord in this way, knowing the interconnectedness of the stories, being able to embrace the mystery and wonder, I think they will be able to teach us grown folk a lot.