The story we engaged at the jail last week about Jesus in Capernaum, healing and casting out demons raised some thoughtful reflections on the feedback survey: I wonder…
- Are my battles against demons or myself
- Will it help me
- What would it be like to see all the people around Jesus being healed
As usual, storyboards were created to help learn and tell the story by heart. This time almost everyone offered to share her storyboard. I guess I need to figure a way to have a gallery, but for now they are all posted below. I’m hoping some of the women when they get out might find their way to this site and see their creative story-learning artwork posted for everyone’s benefit. When the women draw these, they have only heard the story a couple of times, and they are given a scant two minutes to draw each part. I love the variety of depictions they create and I am always amazed at the amount of detail they include.
When I looked at these photos, I realized that the storyboards had been drawn before the women saw a picture I later showed of a typical first-century Palestinian home with its flat roof. So naturally their houses were depicted with the pitched roofs that are our common Western house stereotype. I remember last year when I taught this story I showed the picture first. As a result, when we did the storyboard exercise the houses were drawn with flat roofs. It doesn’t really matter how they are drawn for purposes of the storyboard exercise, but it impressed me again how attentive most of the women are to what we do in Circle.
