Images
‘Heart Talks with Mother God’ by Bridget Meehan and Regina Oliver
No words, no language about God can ever fully reflect the divine mystery. The ‘Loving father’ image is one which many children are familiar with but it cannot say it all. This text explores a variety of metaphors for God.
‘God Speaks to us in Feeding Stories’ by Mary Ann Getty-Sullivan
Another story to explore an image of God through the Word.
‘God’s Quiet Things’ by Rick Stevens
Look and listen high and low. God’s quiet things are your to know.
‘God’s Paintbrush’ by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
Gives children a rich palette of images to engage in a discovery of and relationship with God.
‘God in Between’ by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
This book is multicultural, non denominational, and nonsectarian. It is endorsed by religious leaders in protestant, Catholicism and Judaism. It is designed to stimulate the religious imagination and to think about God.
‘In God’s Name’ by Sandy Eisenberg Sasso
Provides a wonderful illustration of the many faces through which God is understood.
‘God Is’ by Mark Macleod
Where is God? The gentle words an images in this picture book will help you begin to think about this question. In every living moment and every living thing around us, God is.
Images that may help us consider ‘Being Human’
‘Beginnings’ by Lori Ann Watson
This text is a picture book that tells the story of a variety of beginnings, beginning of a thunderstorm, beginning of a pine tree, and the beginning of human life. Without much more detail it does say that the starting place for the human person is in the mother’s womb. This would complement the Being Sexual Strand and Being Human Strand at Standard 2 as it covers some stages of development and growth and is a reminder of the wonder of God’s creation.
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