- Daniel 12: 1-3
- Psalms 16: 5, 8, 9-10, 11
- Hebrews 10: 11-14, 18
- Mark 13: 24-32
- Trust in the face of change
- Think back to the last time that you went through a big change. Maybe that was a marriage, breaking up with someone, getting a new job, you name it.
- To make that change, you had to leave something behind, say goodbye to something. What was that something?
- Was the sacrifice worth it?
- What made you decide that the sacrifice was worth it?
- Where was God in all of that?
- Finding the joy of the Lord
- How would you define the joy of the Lord?
- What/where is the source of that joy?
- How is it like the joy that all of us feel at things like the birth of a new baby, or graduating with a College degree?
- How is the joy of the Lord unlike those joys?
- Which sort of joy is more durable?
- All roads lead to Jesus
- Jesus fulfilled the Law and the Prophets.
- Does that mean that all of those centuries of Jewish worship and philosophy were a waste?
- What is something in your life that you had to let go if to make room for something even better.
- Did you resent making that shift at that time?
- Why is it that we cannot "have it all?"
- Cultivating detachment
- It's always been easy to get confused between those things in our lives that are eternal, enduring, and those that are ephemeral, that are here for a time and then we mature beyond them.
- How do you tell the difference?
- Is it important that we know the difference?
- Which is more important, the fine workmanship of the chalice, or the contents of the chalice, or the community of the gathered faithful sharing in that meal?
- Preparation for Reconciliation:
- How am I becoming wiser in the ways of God?
- What is my joy based on?
- How am I waiting creatively?
- How am I setting my priorities?
Shalom!
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