Daily Sheet: Day 130: Stillness
Family Book: “Mouse Was Mad”
Travel: Finland
Video: “Like a Lake” – Sara Groves (with lyrics)
Video: “Ran Before the Storm” – Roo Panes
Daily Sheet: Day 130: Stillness
Family Book: “Mouse Was Mad”
Travel: Finland
Video: “Like a Lake” – Sara Groves (with lyrics)
Video: “Ran Before the Storm” – Roo Panes
Daily Sheet: Day 125: Mercy
Family Books: “My Favorite Food”, “Mrs. Katz and Tush”
Travel: Slovakia
Video: “I Will Sing” – Rich Mullins
Video: “Different Child” – Roo Panes
Daily Sheet: Day 113: Commitment
Family Book: “Silver Threads”
Travel: British Columbia
Song: “I Commit” – Margaret Becker
Daily Sheet: Day 111: Organization
Family Book: “Aunt Minnie McGranahan”
Travel: Hungary; Croatia; Bosnia; Serbia; Bulgaria
Video: “I Am Not a Mistake” – Indiana Feek
Video: “The Color Green” – Rich Mullins (official music video, with introduction by Rich)
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 104: Optimism
Family Book: “Four Feet, Two Sandals”
Travel: Afghanistan
Video: Sara Groves introduces “Floodplain” and talks about the role of positive thinking in our lives
Song: “Floodplain” – Sara Groves
Some hearts are built on a floodplain, keeping one eye on the sky for rain. You work for the ground that gets washed away when you live closer…
Closer to the life and the ebb and flow, closer to the edge of I don’t know, closer to that’s the way it goes… Some hearts are built on a floodplain.
And it’s easy to sigh on a high bluff, look down and ask when you’ve had enough. Will you have the sense to come on up or will you stay closer?
Closer to the danger and the rolling deep, closer to the run and the losing streak and what brings us to our knees… Some hearts live here.
Oh the river it rushes to madness and the water it spreads like sadness and there’s no high ground. Closer to the danger and the rolling deep, closer to the run and the losing streak and what brings us to our knees…
Closer to the life and the ebb and flow, closer to the edge of I don’t know, closer to Lord please send a boat… Some hearts are built here.
Video: “Brighter Day” – Gungor (drum cover)
Love came down and hope was found; Now we’re waking up to a brighter 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 73: Tenacity
Family Book: “The Arrival”
Travel: Germany; Belgium; Netherlands
Song: “Immigrant’s Daughter” – Margaret Becker
Video: Boy learning to walk
Video: “How Can I Keep From Singing” – Audrey Assad
Video: “Zeke Gets Dressed”
Daily Sheet: Day 71: Goodness
Family Book: “Bless the Lord: The 103rd Psalm”
Travel: Federated States of Micronesia
Daily Sheet: Day 67: Gratitude
Family Book: “Moonlight on the Amazon”
Travel: Brazil
Hymn: It Is Well
Video: “Something Changed” – Sara Groves
Song: “Grace For Me” – Gungor (with Portuguese subtitles)
Listen for and discuss the following lyrics:
“Valleys come and tears are drying. There are things I don’t yet see. But I’ll rejoice in spite of hardship. You’ll watch over me. Your grace for me is all I need; all I need is here.”
Video: “How Great Thou Art” – The Brooklyn Tabernacle Choir (This takes the Cheesiest Video Cake. My kids love it, though.)