Kara Root has put together this awesome liturgy to use in youth group or youth services when collecting and returning devices.
RELEASING PHONES
We surrender our phones
To acknowledge that we are not as essential
as we would have ourselves believe.
And to recognise how essential we are
to this moment, this conversation, this process.
We put down our phones
to put down the false belief
that we can be more places than here,
doing more things than this.
And to commit to being fully present, here and now.
We turn off our phones
to turn to each other and to the moment at hand,
with full attention, creativity and welcome.
May we receive the gifts of full presence and essential connection.
May God meet us in this moment.
Amen
(phones are shut down and surrendered eg basket passed around and phones placed in them)
RETRIEVING PHONES
We return from this moment, taking with us the gift of being fully present.
May we return with gratitude and perspective
to the tasks before us and the noise around us,
a little more willing to resist the urgency
and a little more able to receive the quiet gifts of each moment
where God is present alongside us.
Amen.
(Cell phones are retrieved)
Copyright Kara Root
Shared with permission.