Contemplative Prayer Stations

Using situation that have actually happened, people are asked to think what their response would have been.
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Directions for leadership:
This particular station is to make people think. Post each situation around a room or closed off area where people can walk around and read all the different one. Post the directions periodically around the room as well. Or you can set it up linearly, one long row with the directions at the beginning. Along with each situation look for a picture that can go along with it in some way, this helps make it a little less abstract .
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Directions:
Around the area are various situations. As you read through the situation, think about how you would respond if it were you. Does it match up with what Jesus would want you to do?
By the way, all situations actually happened…

I was driving along and saw a road side stand with strawberries. Of course, I immediately pulled over to get some, seeing how strawberries are a gift from heaven, especially with ice cream. But when I walked up I remembered a comment my father had made once about how we shouldn’t support illegal immigrants by buying their produce. It was obvious it was a Latino family running the stand and only the teenager could speak English.
A few weeks ago I was walking in downtown Grass Valley, and I stopped to look in a window. There was a Black man standing by his car next to me. As I turned, a white man was walking past us and I heard him say to the Black man: “You are in the way, Boy.” And continued walking. (Boy is used as a derogatory term left over from when we viewed Blacks as less than human, an opinion obviously still around.)

Last winter, while taking the exit off of Highway 20 to come to church, I saw a homeless man standing with a sign. As we came up to the stop, I was better able to read his sign. “Homeless: need shoes.” We were already 5 min late and our lateness would be noticed as we had responsibilities in the service.

After a nice dinner with some friends, I was walking down Main St. and there was a man passed out on the side walk, up against the building. The guy was obviously drunk. I paused, and shivered a bit (it was cold that night) and looked around.

I was out shopping the other day and I saw an Arab woman and her husband, both dressed in traditional Muslim clothes, walking by. I turned to go the opposite way and realized there was a group of young guys following the two, making crass jokes about Muslims and terrorists.

I was walking down the street in the middle of the day and all of the sudden I hear this guy yelp and a gunshot. I turn and see this guy ducking back and forth behind a tree as another man fires his gun over and over at him.

One night I was talking with some friends, one of which was a woman who was very overweight and always fluctuated in clothing size. It was raining out and as I looked around I realized she had no coat, and probably couldn’t afford one.

I was eating dinner on the porch of my apartment and the neighbor guy, who is always high on some drug or another, came over to me. He said he didn’t have enough cash to go grocery shopping till tomorrow (yet some how has enough cash to get some pot ten minutes earlier) and wonder if he could have some of my dinner left-overs.