“By loving your neighbour you purify your eyes so that they are ready to see God."
- St. Augustine

Discussing Helena’s Voyage

 

 Here are some of the topics in Helena’s Voyage. Parents, teachers and religious leaders can work with children on any of these ideas via discussion, composition, artwork, or acting (puppet play, stage play, role play, etc.)  
  • Compassion for the sick and the less fortunate
• Angels
• The Mediterranean (countries, Sea, cultures, climate, food, etc.)
• Judaism, Christianity, Islam
• The Golden Rule: "...Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself." Who is our neighbour?
• War from the point of view of:		  
  o Orphans
o Children
o An angel
o Abraham
o God		  

• Death and grieving
• What if God had chosen to reverse the roles of Helena and Abraham? Or you?
• The shared heritage of Judaism, Christianity and Islam – The Children of Abraham
• Middle Eastern music
• Courage
• God’s universal love
• Interfaith, world religions
• What is Heaven like?
• What is God like?
• Love, mutual respect, tolerance, peace
• Hebrew and Arabic writing
• One planet, one people, one God

 

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