The Prayer Labyrinth

A new feature for the national Mennonite Brethren youth conference is the prayer labyrinth (also known as a prayer path). Labyrinths were used in medieval times to help believers focus on God. The walk inward helps believers think about their own personal journey with God; the walk outward focuses on the world that Christians live in. Our prayer labyrinth has eleven stations of prayer and takes about one hour to complete. At the last station students journal and record some of their thoughts from the experience. Here are some excerpts from that journal:

God showed me that I need to quiet the noise in my mind and all the concerns and worries that go through my head….

The things we hold so close here on Earth are not what stay with us in eternity. We need to quiet down and let God be God.

I was very blessed by this experience because it has reiterated to me the fact that God is in control of everything in my life….

This experience has shown me all I have put in front of God, I can grow and change once I recognize it. I am ready to serve God with my whole life!

God has worked in my life through this. He has shown me that no matter what I go through he is there and where I go he is there and what I do he is there. He will hold me up through the rough time, cry with me through the sad time and laugh with me through the good times.

This was amazing and very cleansing. All the candles remind me of God’s warmth and light.