Wednesday, June 24, 2015

Prayer walk workshop - Prayer walk framework from DOK Triennial at the Zermatt Resort Midway Utah!




Prayer Walking at Zermatt

Good Afternoon and Welcome to our afternoon Prayer Walking Workshop.

I’m pleased to be your facilitator and look forward to our time together.  A few safety checks before we enter the wonderful world of outdoor worship called prayer walking.  Make sure you have water with you, you have your laces tied securely.

Now let us begin by doing a few breathing exercises using this phrase

 Inhale the Holy Spirit

Exhale Love

Now let us consecrate this walk to God

God as we set our feet upon the path that you have chosen for us  this day, enliven our spirits, quicken our steps, expand our hearts and  may we feel the Waters of Life coursing through our veins. Amen.

Begin in our minds and hearts by praying for our family members who are our neighbors.

Take a few steps and imagine we see a homeless person sleeping on a bus bench.  This is when we pray for the least of these. Let us stay there for a moment and ask God to help us to find ways in which to serve them.

Take a few steps more and imagine we see a lot of trash. Let us pray that we may be good conservationists of God’s Cathedral of Life.

Let us stop, look, and listen to what God is saying to us at heart level.  (We are getting ready to cross the street and are waiting for the light to change)

Take a few steps and notice there is a library or school, pray for those who teach and those who learn.  Do this every time you see a business, city hall, police station, hospital, place of worship, and be at prayer.









Take a few steps and see the hills and think and pray Psalm 121


1 I lift up my eyes to the hills— from where will my help come?
2 My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth. 

3 He will not let your foot be moved; he who keeps you will not slumber.
4 He who keeps Israel will neither slumber nor sleep. 

5 The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade at your right hand.
6 The sun shall not strike you by day; nor the moon by night. 

7 The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life.
8 The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time on and for evermore

Take a few steps and pray your own prayer list.

 Now take time to be one with God and nature.

Pray for whatever concerns you and is on your hearts.

Pray this concluding prayer

Gracious and loving God we thank you for this time of prayer, meditation, and prayer walking. Thank you that we are walking with you not just on your journey but ours. We pray and give thanks in the Name of Jesus the great prayer walking model of us all. Amen.


Here is my email address for you if you’d like to contact me: saraleemacdonald@msn.com
I write a blog called Walk With Me On Our Journey here is the link. 

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