Day 142: Righteousness

Daily Sheet: Day 142: Righteousness

Family Book: “Noah’s Ark”

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Travel: Norway

“The Right Thing to Do” – The Harrow Family

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Day 123: Efficiency

Daily Sheet: Day 123: Efficiency

Family Book: “Building an Igloo”

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Travel: Alaska

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

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

 

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Day 108: Perseverance

Daily Sheet: Day 108: Perseverance

Family Book: “The Butter Man”

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Travel: Western Sahara; Morocco

Video: “When The Saints” – Sara Groves (images from the persecuted church; with lyrics)

Song: “Mistral” – Roo Panes

 

 

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Day 99: Freedom

Daily Sheet: Day 99: Freedom

Family Book: “Ben and the Emancipation Proclamation”

Family Book: “You Are Special”

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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 indeed

You’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 You

In 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 flame

So 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 play

Cause 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 flame

I 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:

  • Compare and contrast physical, emotional and spiritual freedom
  • Can you find examples in today’s lesson where faith in Christ has brought each of these types of freedom to someone?
  • Explain what you think is meant by the line, “I was born to be free; you were born to free me.”
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Day 89: Empathy

Daily Sheet: Day 89: Empathy

Family Book: “The Long March: The Chocktaw’s Gift to Irish Famine Relief”

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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:

  • Compare “empathy” to “sympathy.”  Which is more meaningful?  Why?
  • Why do you think the story of Jesus raising the widow’s son was chosen for “Empathy” rather than for “Compassion?”
  • Think about the story of “The Long March” while you re-read the bolded lines at the end of Sara Groves’ song, “Why It Matters.”  How do you think the Chocktaw’s act of kindness, inspired by empathy, might have built “small ramparts for the soul”?  And what is the “single cup of water” reference?
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Day 84: Discretion

Daily Sheet: Day 84: Discretion

Family Books: “Unspoken”“Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad”“Follow the Drinking Gourd”

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Travel: Niger

Video: “Underground Churches in China”

Video: “Down in the River to Pray” – Alison Krauss (with the Berklee Gospel Ensemble)

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Day 80: Bravery

Daily Sheet: Day 80: Bravery

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 “Kids at Work: Lewis Hine and the Crusade Against Child Labor
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“Brave Girl: Clara and the Shirtwaist Makers’ Strike of 1909”
“Inch by Inch”

Travel: Guinea-Bissau

Questions:

  • What is the time interval between Lewis Hine’s photography the shirtwaist makers’ strike?
  • Lewis and Clara were both interested in helping make things change.  How did their methods differ?

*** 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

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Day 71: Goodness

Daily Sheet: Day 71: Goodness

Family Book: “Bless the Lord: The 103rd Psalm”

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Travel: Federated States of Micronesia

Hymn: “I Need Thee Every Hour” – Fernando Ortega

Video: “Add to the Beauty” – Sara Groves

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Day 70: Faithfulness

Daily Sheet: Day 70: Faithfulness

Family Book: “Horton Hatches the Egg”

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Travel: Chile

Hymn: “I Need Thee Every Hour” – Chelsea Moon and the Franz Brothers

Video: “He’s Always Been Faithful” – Sara Groves (unofficial music video)

Video: “My Sweet Refuge” – Roo Panes

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Day 35: Remembrance

FILM FESTIVAL

Daily Sheet: Day 35: Remembrance

Family Book: “Wilfred Gordon McDonald Partridge”

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Travel: Iceland

Hymn: “Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing: – Adam Young (Owl City)

Video: “With love, from Rory to Joey”

Video: “When I’m Gone” – Joey Feek

Song: “Once” – Roo Panes

Song: “He Was” – Marshall Hall

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