Week 10: Ezekiel Part 1

This week we began to talk about the prophet (and priest) Ezekiel!  We started with a game called "Bottoms Up" where each person got a piece of paper with an object or creature on it.  They had to describe that thing from the bottom to the top, in hopes of getting the rest of the group to guess correctly with the fewest clues possible. For example, if you had "Football player" you might start with the clue "Cleats".  We found that sometimes even the most common objects are really difficult to describe.  So, you can imagine the difficulty of describing something you have only seen once, and it's so bizarre and big that you don't even know where to begin! This is exactly what happened to Ezekiel.  He saw a vision of God and it was so strange, huge and marvelous that he fell to the ground in awe. 

We split into small groups and read different parts of Ezekiel's vision.  Then we wrote down the characteristics of God based on Ezekiel's vision and attempted to make our own drawings of the vision.  It was difficult to say the least!  We talked about the possible interpretations of the vision...for example the fact that the God in Ezekiel's vision had wheels that could move in any direction might show us that God is able to go anywhere and be present everywhere!  We talked about how Ezekiel's vision of God definitely doesn't look like our various images of God, but it does have very similar qualities to the God we know (all-present, great, wonderful, all-powerful, strong, supportive, etc.).  We realized that there are some qualities of God we found in Ezekiel's vision that we may have overlooked in the past or just never really thought about before.  We shared these with others and continue to reflect on them throughout this week.  I encourage you to read Ezekiel 1:1-28 this week and reflect on what your traditional view of God is, and how Ezekiel's vision can help you expand your understanding of God!  Comment on this post with your thoughts and discoveries.

We also played a fun game of crab soccer!