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)
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)
Daily Sheet: Day 115: Care
Family Book: “The Call of the Swamp”
Travel: Paraguay
Song: “Hands” – Roo Panes
Hold gently what you wish to grow old with. Don’t close those hands.
Questions:
Daily Sheet: Day 102: Benevolence
Family Book: “If the World Were a Village”
Travel: Gabon
Video: “Open My Hands” – Sara Groves (talking about her inspiration behind writing this song)
In Psalm 84:11 we read, “No good thing does He withhold from those who walk uprightly.” Sir Richard Baker comments, “But how is this true, when God so oftentimes withholds riches and honor and health of body from men, though they walk ever so uprightly? We may therefore know that honors and riches and bodily strength are none of God’s good things, and the good things of God are chiefly peace of conscience, joy in the Holy Spirit, fruition of God’s presence, and a vision of His face in the next. These good things God never withholds from the Godly.”
Video: “Open My Hands” – Sara Groves (live acoustic performance)
I believe in a blessing I don’t understand. I’ve seen rain fall on wicked and the just. Rain is no measure of his faithfulness; He withholds no good thing from us.
I believe in a peace that flows deeper than pain, that broken find healing in love.
Pain is no measure of his faithfulness; He withholds no good thing from us.I believe in a fountain that will never dry, though I’ve thirsted and didn’t have enough. Thirst is no measure of his faithfulness; He withholds no good thing from us.
I will open my hands, will open my heart.
I am nodding my head, an emphatic “Yes!” to all that You have for me.
Questions:
Daily Sheet: Day 97: Tolerance
Family Book: “The Relatives Came”
Travel: Seychelles; Mauritius
Song: “When It Was Over” – Sara Groves (with lyrics)
Oh love wash over a multitude of things, love wash over a multitude of things, love wash over a multitude of things; Make us whole.
There is love that never fails; There is a healing that always prevails; There is a hope that whispers a vow, a promise to stay while we’re working it out, so come with your love and wash over us.
Questions:
Daily Sheet: Day 96: Gentleness
Family Book: “Handa’s Surprise”
Travel: Comoros; Madagascar
Video: “Childhood Summer” – Sara Groves (official music video)
I miss innocence. I miss the arms of my mother. I miss feeling light like a childhood summer. Childhood summer.
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 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 83: Submission
Family Book: “Now Let Me Fly”
Travel: Nigeria
Video: “The Palm of Your Hand” – Alison Krauss
I’d rather be in the palm of Your hand, though rich or poor I may be. Faith can see right through the circumstance, sees the forest in spite of the trees.
Your grace provides for me.
Song: “I Surrender All” – Jadon Lavik
All to Jesus I surrender, All to Him I freely give. I will ever love and trust Him, In His presence daily live.
I surrender all, I surrender all. All to Thee, my blessed Savior, I surrender all.
All to Jesus I surrender, Humbly at His feet I bow. Worldly pleasures all forsaken, Take me Jesus, take me now.
I surrender all, I surrender all. All to Thee, my blessed Savior, I surrender all.
All to Jesus I surrender, Lord I give myself to Thee. Fill me with Thy love and power, Let Thy blessing fall on me.
I surrender all, I surrender all. All to Thee, my blessed Savior, I surrender all.
Daily Sheet: Day 80: Bravery
Travel: Guinea-Bissau
Questions:
*** Film Festival Note: Watch it ahead of time. It will require discussion.
Video: “Sing for the Wind” – Roo Panes (Dance)
Hymn: “Jesus, Lover of My Soul” – Fernando Ortega
Video: Audrey Assad speaks about the story behind her song, “Even Unto Death”
Video: “Even Unto Death” – Audrey Assad
Song: “I Won’t Be Afraid Anymore” – Nomos (I can’t find it online for listening, but here is a link for the album — which is all good!) “I Won’t Be Afraid Anymore” – Nomos
Daily Sheet: Day 71: Goodness
Family Book: “Bless the Lord: The 103rd Psalm”
Travel: Federated States of Micronesia