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| King David and the prophet Nathan |
1. What one thought or idea from today's lesson especially intrigued, provoked, disturbed, challenged, encouraged, warmed, warned, helped, or surprised you?
2. Share a story about a time when you felt you experienced a miracle, or when you prayed for a miracle that never came.
3. How do you respond to the literary approach that looks for meaning in miracle stories? Can you apply it to some other miracle stories?
4. If you could have a magical power, what would it be, and why?
Activate
5. Keep these two miracle stories in mind throughout this week, and see if they bring new insights to situations you face.
Meditate
6. Hold in silence the image of an empty ceremonial stone container being filled with water that is transformed to wine. Hear the sound of water filling to the brim. See the water change in color, and taste the change in flavor as it becomes wine. Hear the sound of people celebrating in the background. Sit with the words empty, full, and transformed. See what prayer takes shape in your heart.
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1. What one thought or idea from today's lesson especially intrigued, provoked, disturbed, challenged, encouraged, warmed, warned, helped, or surprised you?
The horrible sin which David committed of having someone killed so that he could have someone else's wife disturbs me. It is amazing that God forgave and loved him in spite of this.
2. Share a story about a time when you felt you experienced a miracle, or when you prayed for a miracle that never came.
When my oldest son was born, he had a hole in his lung necessitating his transfer to a medical center about 70 miles away. Surgery was scheduled to remove a third of one lung to prevent his lung from collapsing. Before the scheduled surgery, they tried oxygen therapy. This had never worked at their medical center before, but it did for Brendan and he was spared from having surgery. We felt that this was a miracle answering our prayers as well as those of many others.
The disturbing thing about this miracle is that he died at age 29 from a heart problem that we were told was unrelated to this, but I wonder.
I also wondered even when rejoicing and sharing the story of our miracle why some prayers are answered and others are not.
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