Day 140: Dependability

Daily Sheet: Day 140: Dependability

Family Book: “This is the Rope”

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Travel: Nevada

Song: “The Red Sea” – Ric Blair

Video: “Abide With Me” – Audrey Assad

Video: “My Sweet Refuge” – Roo Panes

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Day 137: Boldness

Daily Sheet: Day 137: Boldness

Family Book: “Back of the Bus”

Family Book: “Cumbayah”

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Travel: South Carolina; Georgia; Florida; Alabama; Mississippi; Sea Islands

Song: “Bold Little Preacher” – The Crossing

Questions:

  • Both of today’s books were illustrated by Floyd Cooper.  What observations can you make about his illustration style?  What are the similarities between the two books?  What are the differences?

 

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Day 125: Mercy

Daily Sheet: Day 125: Mercy

Family Books: “My Favorite Food”“Mrs. Katz and Tush”

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Travel: Slovakia

Video: “I Will Sing” – Rich Mullins

Video: “Different Child” – Roo Panes

 

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Day 110: Neutrality

Daily Sheet: Day 110: Neutrality

Family Book: “The Slant Book”

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Travel: Austria; Czech Republic; Switzerland

Video: “Roll to the Middle” – Sara Groves

 

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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 98: Loyalty

Daily Sheet: Day 98: Loyalty

Family Book: “The Last Brother”

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Travel: New Zealand

Video: “My Sweet Refuge” – Roo Panes

I don’t think You want grand gestures, just a simple faithful friend, someone who will walk it with You all the way to the end, someone who can live and love You, singing how I’ve come to know

You’re like the sun that gives the moon its glow

You’re my, oh, You are my, my sweet refuge.  You’re my, oh, You are my, my sweet refuge and I know the wolves keep circling but we’ll leave them chasing tails ’cause You’re my, oh, You are my, my sweet refuge.

So I kiss farewell to drama; My everything is You, and after all the things that You’ve done, oh, Your love’s been proved.  I’m not going back there; no, I’ve come to know

You’re like the sun that gives the moon its glow

You’re my, oh, You are my, my sweet refuge.  You’re my, oh, You are my, my sweet refuge and I know the wolves keep circling but I’ll be safe with You ’cause You’re my, oh, You are my, my sweet refuge.

I need you, I need You, I need You, I need You, I need You Lord, every day.  I need You, I need You, I need You, I need You, I need you.

Song: “Stay Close to Me” – Margaret Becker

Lately I’ve been finding comfort in this truth: I am just a child of need who’s found her hope in You.  Stay close to me.

Video: “Abide With Me” – Audrey Assad

Abide with me, fast falls the eventide.  The darkness deepens; Lord, with me abide.  When other helpers fail and comforts flee, Help of the helpless, O abide with me.

Hold Thou Thy cross before my closing eyes; Shine through the gloom and point me to the skies.  Heaven’s morning breads, and earth’s vain shadows flee.  In life, in death, O Lord, abide with me.

Video: “Stay With Me” – Roo Panes

Well I’ve been everywhere, but I’ve been nowhere; It was all viridian in permission blood.  There was a void before me; it was as deep as truth, because all the world couldn’t hide the view of you.

Stay with me!  Oh stay with me; you’re right where you are supposed to be!

You’re y Eldorado; you’re my holy grail; I found my treasure through the rain and hail, knowing I was taller when upon my knees, knowing you’d come back to me if I just said please!

Oh you take me back to the morning light; You take me back to the morning light, the very moment that I found my sight, You’re forever by my side.

Questions:

  • Why do you think Gabe made the decisions he did?
  • Do you think he made the right decisions?
  • How did he remain loyal to his brother and to Orly?
  • How are these four songs similar?
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Day 85: Community

Daily Sheet: Day 85: Community

Family Book: “A Place Called Freedom”

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Travel: French Guiana; Suriname; Guyana

Video: “Peace” – Rich Mullins (Faces of 2010)

Though we’re strangers, still I love you.  I love you more than your mask.  And you know you have to trust this to be true, and I know that’s much to ask.  But lay down your fears, come and join this feast.  He has called us here, you and me.

And may peace rain down from Heaven like little pieces of the sky, Little keepers of the promise falling on these souls this drought has dried.  In His Blood and in His Body, in the Bread and in this Wine,

Peace to you.  Peace of Christ to you.

And though I love you, still we’re strangers, prisoners in these lonely hearts.  And though our blindness separates us, still His light shines in the dark.

And His outstretched arms are still strong enough behind these prison bars to set us free.

So may peace rain down from Heaven like little pieces of the sky, Little keepers of the promise falling on these souls this drought has dried.  In his Blood and in His Body, in the Bread and in this Wine,

Peace to you.  Peace of Christ to you.

Video: “Call It Dreaming” – Iron & Wine

…Where we break when our hearts are strong enough, We can bow ’cause our music’s warmer than blood.

Where we see enough to follow, We can hear when we are hollow.

Where we keep the light we’re given, We can lose and call it living…

Questions:

  • Discuss community as it relates to two similar words: communion, and unity
  • What do you think is meant by the following line?

Where we keep the light we’re given, we can lose and call it living.

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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 83: Submission

Daily Sheet: Day 83: Submission

Family Book:  “Now Let Me Fly”

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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.

 

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Day 82: Strength

Daily Sheet: Day 82: Strength

Family Book: “I Lay My Stitches Down”

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Travel: Sierra Leone; Guinea; Liberia

Video: “We Are Not as Strong As We Think We Are” – Rich Mullins (acoustic, Wheaton College 1997)

Video: “Please Be My Strength” – Gungor (live acoustic version)

 

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