Daily Sheet: Day 131: Security
Family Book: “Psalm 23”
Travel: Samoa, Tonga
Video: “You Cannot Lose My Love” – Sara Groves
Video: “My Sweet Refuge” – Roo Panes
Daily Sheet: Day 131: Security
Family Book: “Psalm 23”
Travel: Samoa, Tonga
Video: “You Cannot Lose My Love” – Sara Groves
Video: “My Sweet Refuge” – Roo Panes
Daily Sheet: Day 129: Inventiveness
Family Book: “Rosie Revere, Engineer”
Travel: Sweden
Video: Sara Groves talks about pragmatism, utility, extravagance and wastefulness
Video: “Wood and Nails” – Audrey Assad and Josh Garrels
Daily Sheet: Day 118: Beauty
Family Book: “The Beautiful World that God Made”
Travel: Ecuador; Galapagos Islands
Video: “Jesus, You’re Beautiful” – Sara Groves (with lyrics)
Daily Sheet: Day 108: Perseverance
Family Book: “The Butter Man”
Travel: Western Sahara; Morocco
Video: “When The Saints” – Sara Groves (images from the persecuted church; with lyrics)
Song: “Mistral” – Roo Panes
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 93: Kindness
Family Book: “The Watcher”
Travel: Zimbabwe
Video: “All the Ways You Wander” – John Spillane
…And if you take the long way, if you take the long way home, down where the magicians and the dreamers roam, through the mountains of morning, through the valleys of night, searching for the island of your heart’s delight,
I’ll wait for you, like a true friend. I’ll wait for you, ’til the very end.
Video: “Kindness”
Video: “12 Year Old Boy Helps Homeless People in Los Angeles”
“I might only have one match, but I can make an explosion.”
Video: “12 Year Old Boy Helping More Homeless People in L.A.”
Video: “14 Year Old Boy Helping More Homeless People in L.A.”
Elliot Katz, the boy in the last three videos above, was inspired in part to form his charity organization, ReachingOutCalifornia, by the following verse:
“And whoever saves a life, it is considered as if he saved an entire world.” – Mishnah Sanhedrin 4:9; Yerushalmi Talmud.
Put in context, the passage reads as follows:
…We find in regard to Cain, who killed his brother, “The bloods of your brother scream out!” (Genesis 4:10) – the verse does not say blood of your brother, but bloods of your brother, because it was his blood and also the blood of his future offspring [screaming out]! [The judges’ speech continues] “It was for this reason that man was first created as one person [Adam], to teach you that anyone who destroys a life is considered by Scripture to have destroyed an entire world; and anyone who saves a life is as if he saved an entire world.”
Questions:
If you try to hang on to your life, you will lose it. But if you give up your life for my sake, you will save it. (New Living Translation – NLT)
Daily Sheet: Day 82: Strength
Family Book: “I Lay My Stitches Down”
Travel: Sierra Leone; Guinea; Liberia
Video: “We Are Not as Strong As We Think We Are” – Rich Mullins (acoustic, Wheaton College 1997)
Video: “Please Be My Strength” – Gungor (live acoustic version)
Daily Sheet: Day 77: Integrity
Family Book: “So You Want to Be President?”
Travel: Gambia; Senegal
Video: “Let There Be” – Gungor
Video: “Let There Be” – Gungor
Video: “Shine A Light” – Elevation Worship
Video: “Ancient Skies” – Gungor (with lyrics; set against time-lapse images of northern lights)
Daily Sheet: Day 43: Faith
Family Book: “The Carrot Seed”
Travel: Newfoundland; Labrador
Song: “In the Girl There’s a Room” – Sara Groves
Video: “In the Girl There’s A Room” – Sara Groves (a cappella group)
Daily Sheet: Day 16: Assertiveness
Family Book: “At Break of Day”
Family Book: “The Story of the Creation”
Travel: Red Sea, Saudi Arabia
Hymn: “O God, Our Help in Ages Past” – (Prayer Service, National Cathedral, 09-14-2011)
Song: “I Will Praise Him Still” – Fernando Ortega
Video: “Let There Be” – Gungor (cosmos)
Video: “Let There Be” – Gungor (video of scenes from Creation)