In some cultures, plates are broken to celebrate. (i.e....the greek folk regularly maim fine plates)
In some families, plates are broken to alleviate stress/frustration/anger. (See the movie tortilla soup, if you're feeling like a chick flick with Hector Elizondo in it...)
Go to the arc, purchase plates, use sharpies to write things of celebration/things of frustration or anger. Release them to God by breaking against a wall. (Suggestion: get a permit for this if we are doing it outside, as the police were called last time I did this with a group...it's very noisy.) Earthenware plates work best for this project, as they have a tendency to break into usable pieces.
Take the pieces and create a mosaic or some other really cool thing with them. (I've seen it done as mosaic, and also as piecing the broken plates together to make new plates.)
Verses: Corinthians' old has gone new has come is usually the reference I use with this project. Sorry I'm not able to look it up immediately.
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I like this idea. Reminds me a little bit of the Jewish wedding tradition of breaking a wineglass.
It's also interesting to me that it takes brokenness and makes new things.
A reality I think a lot of churchy folk don't remember...that they're broken first before Christ fixes them.
Totally - and the church is somehow a united whole out of a bunch of separate broken pieces.
Cool idea. I like the mosaic part too as it ties into the "mosaic" group at atlas.
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