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:

• Do you like today’s story?  Does it make sense to you?  Why or why not?
• Explain Ecclesiastes 11:4.
• What is a floodplain?  What does Sara Groves mean when she says “some hearts live there”?  Do you think that means these people are optimistic or pessimistic?