Peace...Make It, Spread It, BE It.........

Today was a PERFECT day (not with the weather but symbolically) to hang up the 4th grade Prayer flags.  

Students learned about prayer flags that Buddhists use as a way to spread their prayers and good will to the community around them.  Buddhists believe that if you create and hang a prayer flag up, that the wind will blow through the prayer flag and carry that thought, or prayer, or hope to the community around them.

Students had to come up with their own Catholic prayer for our SFC community.  They symbolized that prayer with one word that was placed on their flag.  They used paint, stencils, fabric scraps, puff paints, metallic markers, and sharpies to create their flags.  

Walking out of mass today and seeing these beautiful swatches of fabric hanging in the breeze, each with their own prayer for our community, helped solidify a thought in my mind: 

How wonderful it is to be a part of such a beautiful community where we pray and look out for one another.

I hope as you walk by the flags over the next few weeks or month, that you feel the prayers and love wash over you, maybe in the gentle breeze of the wind.

                                                    4th graders standing by their flags