The Godspace is still a hit in the house. I like to use it when the house is quiet to do morning or evening prayer.

Every now and again I have been changing how it looks, with different pictures or ‘icons’ and other stuff we find. I have been trying to encourage the children to contribute to the God Space too. When we were walking along the beach Joe found a pebble with a cross of granite running through it. He thought it would be good for the God Space, and so added it to the table.

I got quite excited the other day when I was able to see Joe changing the God Space on his own initative. A few days earlier I had made a small cross out of coloured glass beads. Joe decided it needed to be far more extravagant and made a much bigger one. A couple of hours later Beth decided to add the word ‘god’ made out of glass beads too.

The pic shows Joe changing his God Space. It’s taken a while but now the children are adding and taking, which I think means they see the ‘space’ as something that belongs to them and is for them to use.

I’m kind of excited about this as I think this is allowing my children to access and connect with God in a different way than they do ‘normally’.

I sincerely believe that the evangelical part of the church has chucked out lots of good stuff through fear of falling into heresy … such things as icons, incense, candles … in fact a fair bit of symbolism altogether. The God Space is our way of trying to re-address that way of conneting with God.