Daily Sheet: Day 134: Reverence
Family Book: “Come Sunday”
Travel: Vanuatu; New Caledonia
Video: “Let Your Glory Fall” – Don Moen
Daily Sheet: Day 134: Reverence
Family Book: “Come Sunday”
Travel: Vanuatu; New Caledonia
Video: “Let Your Glory Fall” – Don Moen
Daily Sheet: Day 132: Self-Control
Family Book: “Separate Is Never Equal”
Travel: Kiribati; Nauru; Tuvalu
Daily Sheet: Day 122: Helpfulness
Family Book: “Children of the Yukon”
Travel: Yukon Territory
Song: “Right Now” – Sara Groves
What you need from me, I can do it right now.
Daily Sheet: Day 99: Freedom
Family Book: “Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation”
Family Book: “You Are Special”
Travel: Nebraska; Kansas
Video: “Set You Free” – Nomos
If you did, if you did, even if you did… Been where you shouldn’t have been, Seen what you shouldn’t have seen, Dreamed what you shouldn’t have dreamed, that doesn’t mean you have to be locked up here forever. I’m going to set you free.—And if you did, if you did, even if you did… Done what you shouldn’t have done, Run when you shouldn’t have run, Lost when you shouldn’t have won, that doesn’t mean you have to be paying the price forever. I’m going to set you free.—And if you did, if you did, only if you did… Strayed from the beaten track, Maybe you never got back, Went in off the black, that doesn’t mean you have to be lying around here forever. I’m going to set you free.—Ah if you did, if you did, even if you did… Suffered from a broken heart, Got off to a poor start, Maybe you fell apart, that doesn’t mean you have to be paying the price forever. I’m going to set you free.—And if you did, if you did, even if you did… Known what you shouldn’t have known, Shown what you shouldn’t have shown, Thrown what you shouldn’t have thrown, that doesn’t mean you have to be lying around here forever. I’m going to set you free.—Ah if you did, if you did, even if you did… Been where you shouldn’t have been, Seen what you shouldn’t have seen, Dreamed what you shouldn’t have dreamed, that doesn’t mean you have to be locked up here forever. I’m going to set you free.
Video: “Deliverer” – Audrey Assad
You are not possessive, You respect all things
You are not invasive, You have no envy
You are not insistent, You do not force me
You are not controlling, You make me free indeedYou’re my deliverer, You’re my deliverer. You won’t pass me by.
Your law is freedom and mercy is Your rule
Though You dwell within me, I can’t contain YouIn the ruins of my heart, You preach to the poor
Turning over stones to show me there is more
More than all I ask, more than I’m looking for
In the ruins of my heart
Video: “Land of the Living” – Roo Panes
Where they go
That we shall cherish and that I wrestle
Don’t want to be like the dust that settles
This empire of nothing
I find that I’m king of all these empty homes
That are ruled by my own flaws
But you can’t be an old fire
If you are burning with a new flameSo remember that, you are never a forgotten name
Cause I know a land called the land of the living
It’s the world beyond those curtains where we learned to play
I hear the voices of my childhood singing it’s the world beyond those doorways
Where we use to playCause every moment
Is a chance to define what you want to become
You’re not a slave to things you’ve done
Be brave and be bold
Be childish and old it’s the same old story
Every life needs a hope of glory
But you can’t be an old fire
If you’re burning with a new flameI was born to be free, you were born to free me
Cause I know a land called the land of the living
It’s the world beyond those curtains where we learned to play
I hear the voices of my childhood singing it’s the world beyond those doorways
Where we use to play
I know a land called the land of the living
It’s the world beyond those curtains where we learned to play
Oh we’ll go back, we’ll go back to the beginning
And we’ll pick up on the trails of forgotten ways
Song: “Finally” – Gungor
Call me back into the silence, into the sunlight.
Every breath a standing defiance of death and of clamor; Let darkness be scattered now.
I’ll be here waiting in silence, waiting for sunlight to make all the world shine bright.
All the stars fall in line and the seas bow their heads. We remember our dead and we sing another day.
As the silence, it grows and the worlds fade away; All the sons empty their graves.
We will sing another day.
Questions:
Daily Sheet: Day 89: Empathy
Family Book: “The Long March: The Chocktaw’s Gift to Irish Famine Relief”
Travel: Oklahoma; Texas
Song: “Why It Matters” – Sara Groves (with lyrics)
Sit with me and tell me once again of the story that’s been told us, of the power that will hold us, of the beauty, of the beauty, Why it matters.
Speak to me until I understand why our thinking and creating, why our efforts of narrating about the beauty, of the beauty, And why it matters.
Like the statue in the park of this war torn town, and its protest of the darkness and the chaos all around, with its beauty, how it matters, How it matters.
Show me the love that never fails, the compassion and attention midst confusion and dissension, like small ramparts for the soul, How it matters.
Like a single cup of water, How it matters.
Questions:
Daily Sheet: Day 85: Community
Family Book: “A Place Called Freedom”
Travel: French Guiana; Suriname; Guyana
Video: “Peace” – Rich Mullins (Faces of 2010)
Though we’re strangers, still I love you. I love you more than your mask. And you know you have to trust this to be true, and I know that’s much to ask. But lay down your fears, come and join this feast. He has called us here, you and me.
And may peace rain down from Heaven like little pieces of the sky, Little keepers of the promise falling on these souls this drought has dried. In His Blood and in His Body, in the Bread and in this Wine,
Peace to you. Peace of Christ to you.
And though I love you, still we’re strangers, prisoners in these lonely hearts. And though our blindness separates us, still His light shines in the dark.
And His outstretched arms are still strong enough behind these prison bars to set us free.
So may peace rain down from Heaven like little pieces of the sky, Little keepers of the promise falling on these souls this drought has dried. In his Blood and in His Body, in the Bread and in this Wine,
Peace to you. Peace of Christ to you.
Video: “Call It Dreaming” – Iron & Wine
…Where we break when our hearts are strong enough, We can bow ’cause our music’s warmer than blood.
Where we see enough to follow, We can hear when we are hollow.
Where we keep the light we’re given, We can lose and call it living…
Questions:
Where we keep the light we’re given, we can lose and call it living.
Daily Sheet: Day 10: Equitability
Family Book: “Masai and I”
Travel: Tanzania; Burundi; Rwanda
Hymn: “How Deep the Father’s Love For Us” – Bethany Children’s Choir, Tanzania
Daily Sheet: Day 9: Focus
Family Books: “Bringing the Rain to Kapiti Plain”; “Mimi’s Village: And How Basic Health Care Transformed It”
Travel: Kenya
Hymn: “How Deep the Father’s Love For Us” – Fernando Ortega
Video: Stuart Townsend talks about writing “How Deep the Father’s Love For Us”
Song: “The Narrow Way” – Wayne Watson
Video: “My Narrow Road” – Roo Panes
Daily Sheet: Day 8 Provision
Family Books: “Beatrice’s Goat”, “Give A Goat”
Travel: Uganda
Hymn: “How Firm a Foundation” – Chelsea Moon with the Franz Brothers
Hymn: “The Solid Rock” – Mark Murchison
Video: “Brother Moon” – Gungor (collaborative video art project)
Video: “Brother Moon” – Gungor (pen/paper/camera song illustration)
Daily Sheet: Day 7: Resilience
Family Book: “Brothers in Hope”
Travel: Sudan; South Sudan
Hymn: “How Firm a Foundation” – Congregational singing, Grace Community Church
Hymn: “The Solid Rock” – (15 minutes – but good if you stick with it)
Hymn: “The Solid Rock” – Acoustic Solo (Reawaken)
Song: “Mourning Into Dancing” – The Crossing
Video: “Resurrecting” – Elevation Worship (UCC baptism video) Listen for the following lyrics:
“By your Spirit I will rise from the ashes of defeat.
The resurrected King is resurrecting me.
In your name I come alive to declare your victory.
The resurrected King is resurrecting me.”