What is God?
From Stories About God by Mary Ann Moore

Goal:
To consider the idea that searching for God is like working on a puzzle.

Preparation:
Read Background for "The Mystery of God"
Use the sample puzzle for examples of shapes for puzzle pieces. Draw the pieces on posterboard, cardboard, or heavy paper and then cut them out. Prepare a backing to fit underneath the puzzle pieces.

Activities:
Introduce the story:
In our Unitarian Universalist church people have many different ideas about God. For some people God is what’s really real, for some God is what’s most important, and for some God is what’s most mysterious. But there are also some UUs who have ideas about what’s most real and most important and most mysterious but they don’t call those things God. They use other words, like Universe, Life, or Love. In our church we each decide for ourselves which words to use and what we believe.

The stories I’m going to read were written to help kids decide for themselves what they thing about God. Here’s one of them.

Read: “The Mystery of God.”

Make a God Puzzle:
Each person takes one or more pieces of the puzzle you cut out. Ask them to draw one of the places they find God, or where they think God might be, or what they think God is like, or (if they don’t like to use the word “God”), something about the mysteries of life. When you are all finished, put your God puzzle together. Glue to the backing you prepared.