Daily Sheet: Day 142: Righteousness
Family Book: “Noah’s Ark”
Travel: Norway
Daily Sheet: Day 132: Self-Control
Family Book: “Separate Is Never Equal”
Travel: Kiribati; Nauru; Tuvalu
Daily Sheet: Day 127: Hope
Family Book: Star of Fear, Star of Hope
Family Book: “Erika’s Story” – Be very careful to read this one first!!! It is not appropriate for most young children. I do think it is important for older students.
Travel: France
Video: “It Might Be Hope” – Sara Groves
Song: “Soldier of Hope” – Roo Panes
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 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 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 75: Prudence
Family Book: “To Every Thing there is a Season”
Travel: South Africa; Lesotho; Swaziland
Daily Sheet: Day 58: Humility
Family Book: “Father and Son: A Nativity Story”
Travel: Italy; Slovenia; San Marino; Sicily; Sardinia; Corsica; Balearic Islands; Monaco; Vatican City
Video: “Joseph’s Song” – Michael Card
Song: “Honesty” – Margaret Becker
Daily Sheet: Day 53: Persistence
Family Book: “A Visitor for Bear”
Travel: Kyrgyzstan; Tajikistan
Video: “Late Have I Loved You” – Gungor (set against aerobatic night flight with fireworks) The video quality here is not great, but even as a pilot who has attended the OshKosh air show, I have never seen anything like this! If you want to see more, check out the last video on this list.
Video: “Late Have I Loved You” – Gungor (a cappella performance by the Beltones at Belmont)