Info & Homework
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If you’re listening to the weekly segments with Jamie and me on Spirit FM, you know that occasionally “homework happens!”
Here are some of the homework suggestions. Links to the segments to follow!
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1. Be generous with your time. That means giving your full attention and interest, because even if the topic isn't interesting to you - you ought be interested in the person you love.
2. Investigate (or revisit) the 5 Love Languages for suggestions on building connections with the people you love.
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More Homework...
November 26, 2018
Happy New Year – Advent begins on Sunday, December 2!!! Advent as a time of quiet waiting and preparation. NOT hustle and bustle. Here the clip: Advent.
Homework:
1. Real Advent reading (e.g., Watch for the Light, other devotionals)
2. Reflect upon and journal about the lyrics to seasonal carols. Listen carefully to the words, repeatedly. Rest in them and allow yourself to be moved by the depth of them
3. Schedule quiet times.
December 10, 2018
This week, Jamie and I discuss the gift of time. We don’t own our time. Refer to CS Lewis’ The Screwtape Letters – the attempt to trick us into thinking our time “belongs” to us and anything demanded of us is a sort of imposition. Actually, each moment is a gift to which we are NOT ENTITLED. Hard to grasp, hard to keep in mind! Hear the clip here: The Gift of Time.
Homework:
1. Reinvest in gratitude activities we discussed a few weeks ago! Gratitude is an antidote for entitlement.
Read (or re-read) The Screwtape Letters. Better: have a reading partner with whom you can discuss your reflections. I would suggest not reading this right before bed – it’s terrifying.More Thoughts
This week, Jamie and I discuss courageously living one's faith. Hear the clip here: November 5.
Homework: Reflect upon…What is important to you that you hide under a bushel basket? Why are you hiding it? Is it necessary for actual safety and survival, or are you merely uncomfortable with others’ disapproval? Does it cost you more to bury your true self than to deal with the fact that not everyone will approve of the real you? With whom can you comfortably discuss these questions?
Homework: Reach out for help if you are experiencing a lot of guilt, remorse, anxiety or other forms of suffering related to past actions.
1. Write down 3 things each day for which you are grateful.
2. Begin a habit of saying a “thank you,” even silently, for small gifts you notice – from a break in traffic to a birdsong!
3. Share your daily three gratitudes with another person: your spouse, an accountability partner, your child (as appropriate!!!)
4. Perhaps the gratitudes become a dinner ritual!
5. Families with smaller kids: during Thanksgiving week, have a lot of strips of construction paper available in a basket or dish. Each person can write – or draw – something for which they are grateful on the strips. Make them into a chain and use them to decorate part of the house for the Advent and Christmas seasons.
“There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind.”
- CS Lewis
"Consult not your fears but your hopes and your dreams. Think not about your frustrations, but about your unfulfilled potential. Concern yourself not with what you tried and failed in, but with what it is still possible for you to do." - Pope John XXIII
"The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch them without doing anything." - Albert Einstein