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Discussion Questions: Marriage & Relationship, Part 2
Naming and Storytelling Of the four stories we’re reviewing (Pt 1: Jacob/Leah/Rachel, Naomi/Ruth/Boaz; Pt 2: Abram/Sarai, Hosea/Gomer): Which two names and meanings resonate with you and why? What does your name mean? What is the root or history of your name? How does your name relate to your overall story? What does your name tell you about yourself? What drives you? Relationships Tell a Story What are the primary and secondary relationships in the four stories and how do they impact or drive the story? What principle [a fundamental truth or proposition that serves as the foundation for a system of belief] stands out to you from the stories we’ve read?…
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Virtual Bible Study: Marriage & Relationship
This is a follow-up to You’re Invited: Virtual Bible Study. The first discussion has been scheduled. Yay! It will be a recorded Zoom call on Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at 9:00am Central Time. The topic is Marriage & Relationship: Modern Concepts vs. Biblical Principles. Text: Book of Ruth: Naomi, Ruth and Boaz Text: Genesis 29-31: Jacob, Rachel and Leah Zoom details: Please note the call will be recorded and shared. Time: Oct 20, 2020 09:00 AM Central Time (US and Canada) Join: https://us04web.zoom.us/j/72581560853?pwd=Vm0yK1p0Yk5rUWIrVEtnbVJ3dklyUT09 Meeting ID: 725 8156 0853 Passcode: CSV2T2
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Morning Stretch and Praise Break
Physical activity has been absent from my life. This morning, I decided to change that beginning with a walk, and a stretch and praise break. Covid-19 isn’t to blame. Over the last seven months I’ve rarely left the house and when I do, it is in a car. When I lived in New York City, leaving home meant walking at least a mile a day, which would have been to/from subway stations, underground, up/down stairs, etc. Most work days meant five miles minimum by the end of the day. Some days I would grab a #Citibike for my eight mile commute – which took about as long as the subway…
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Terry Ann: Woman. Seed. Fertile Ground. Inspiration.
In the summer of 2018, I began working on a portrait and prose book project about womanhood. That summer I returned to my hometowns Gary and Milwaukee and asked friends, family and old connections to pose and share some words about their womanhood experiences. When I began sketching out the project my mom was not top of mind. As the project morphed into various incarnations, the hope was to pull others in along the way. But the more women I talked to and the closer I got to women who had been close to her, the more Mom began to dominate my thoughts. I can’t ask my mother what her…
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Pamela Turner: Two for the Carnage of One
Do this in remembrance of me. It’s psychological warfare physical murder spiritual bondage. Our sanity means nothing to the intentionally persistent assassins of our humanity. Our humanness has no value in the confrontation of violent entitlement& and moral disregard that assumes murder of “others” is the white person’s right – a privilege awarded to hunters; a prize for the domineering. I cried out to Jesus, only to be consumed by His weeping and grief. I raged at Democracy, only realize my own invisibleness. I shouted out to my neighbors but their thundering silence shamed me! I too may be America, but who is America? What we’ve become is who…
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Quote: My mother showed me what’s possible.
We tell people to follow their dreams, but you can only dream of what you can imagine, and, depending on where you come from, your imagination can be quite limited. Growing up in Soweto, our dream was to put another room on our [one room] house. Maybe have a driveway. [Yet no car.] Maybe, someday, a cast-iron gate at the end of the driveway. Because that is all we knew. But the highest rung of what’s possible is far beyond the world you can see. My mother showed me what’s possible. The thing that always amazed me about her life was that no one showed her. No one chose her.…
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Please never stop believing that fighting for what’s right is worth it. It is, it is worth it. ~ Hillary Clinton, Concession Speech, November 9, 2017 Transcript to Hillary’s full concession speech
