Day 123: Efficiency

Daily Sheet: Day 123: Efficiency

Family Book: “Building an Igloo”

Travel: Alaska

Video: “Scientists in Japan” – Sara Groves talks about the meaning behind the song

Video: “Scientists in Japan” – Sara Groves (official music video)

Day 121: Forgiveness

Daily Sheet: Day 121: Forgiveness

Family Book: “The Lord’s Prayer”

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Travel: New Mexico; Arizona

Song: “Find Me In These Fields” – Phil Keaggy & Brian Zahnd

Video: “Peace Be With You” – Roo Panes

Day 103: Attentiveness

Daily Sheet: Day 103: Attentiveness

Family Book: “Good Night, Gorilla”

Travel: Cameroon

Map: Mary Kingsley’s Travels

Video: “A Message To Myself” – Roo Panes

Going to get out of here, so many voices fill this place; Society is in my solitude. Oh find me the corner of this great space! If I’d heard every word, if I’d read every line upon the shelf, I’d still need a message to myself.

Searching for the elements, the roots of a fundamental love; Been reaching out to find my solid ground, ’cause I’ve never known peace lest from above. So up in the clear, I’ll find the voice that I hold dear, and I’ll send a message to myself.

Video: “Just One More Thing” – Sara Groves

Day 98: Loyalty

Daily Sheet: Day 98: Loyalty

Family Book: “The Last Brother”

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Travel: New Zealand

Video: “My Sweet Refuge” – Roo Panes

I don’t think You want grand gestures, just a simple faithful friend, someone who will walk it with You all the way to the end, someone who can live and love You, singing how I’ve come to know

You’re like the sun that gives the moon its glow

You’re my, oh, You are my, my sweet refuge. You’re my, oh, You are my, my sweet refuge and I know the wolves keep circling but we’ll leave them chasing tails ’cause You’re my, oh, You are my, my sweet refuge.

So I kiss farewell to drama; My everything is You, and after all the things that You’ve done, oh, Your love’s been proved. I’m not going back there; no, I’ve come to know

You’re like the sun that gives the moon its glow

You’re my, oh, You are my, my sweet refuge. You’re my, oh, You are my, my sweet refuge and I know the wolves keep circling but I’ll be safe with You ’cause You’re my, oh, You are my, my sweet refuge.

I need you, I need You, I need You, I need You, I need You Lord, every day. I need You, I need You, I need You, I need You, I need you.

Song: “Stay Close to Me” – Margaret Becker

Lately I’ve been finding comfort in this truth: I am just a child of need who’s found her hope in You. Stay close to me.

Video: “Abide With Me” – Audrey Assad

Abide with me, fast falls the eventide. The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide. When other helpers fail and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O abide with me.

Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes; Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies. Heaven’s morning breads, and earth’s vain shadows flee. In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.

Video: “Stay With Me” – Roo Panes

Well I’ve been everywhere, but I’ve been nowhere; It was all viridian in permission blood. There was a void before me; it was as deep as truth, because all the world couldn’t hide the view of you.

Stay with me! Oh stay with me; you’re right where you are supposed to be!

You’re y Eldorado; you’re my holy grail; I found my treasure through the rain and hail, knowing I was taller when upon my knees, knowing you’d come back to me if I just said please!

Oh you take me back to the morning light; You take me back to the morning light, the very moment that I found my sight, You’re forever by my side.

Questions:

Why do you think Gabe made the decisions he did?
Do you think he made the right decisions?
How did he remain loyal to his brother and to Orly?
How are these four songs similar?

Day 85: Community

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: