Ch. 2
1. How can we help our husbands strike the balance between work and leisure?
2. Does your husband's work provide a source of fulfillment and sense of purpose? How can you encourage him in frustrating moments?
Ch. 3
3. What tools/advice have helped you and your husband grow in your financial stewardship?
4. How does your stewardship as a couple expand beyond money?
Personal Reflection-Make a list of your husband's gifts and make an effort to point them out to him.
Action Point-Review your household budget with your husband. Is everything in order?
Showing posts with label Chapter 3. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chapter 3. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Monday, June 27, 2011
Chapter 3: Queen Esther
Esther
1. Queen Vashti showed her husband, King Ahasuerus great disrespect by disregarding his command. How do you show respect to your husband?
2. Reflect on Esther's prayer, "I am doing as the Lord has chosen for me; in that I am joyful." Where in your life is God giving you the opportunity to choose joy?
3. What role does fasting play in your spiritual life?
4. Esther's trust in her adoptive father Mordecai helped her trust Yahweh. How does your relationship with your father impact your image of God the Father?
1. Queen Vashti showed her husband, King Ahasuerus great disrespect by disregarding his command. How do you show respect to your husband?
2. Reflect on Esther's prayer, "I am doing as the Lord has chosen for me; in that I am joyful." Where in your life is God giving you the opportunity to choose joy?
3. What role does fasting play in your spiritual life?
4. Esther's trust in her adoptive father Mordecai helped her trust Yahweh. How does your relationship with your father impact your image of God the Father?
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
Chapter 3: Spiritual Consolation (Rule 3)
1. Share an experience when a non-spiritual consolation provided a springboard for a spiritual consolation.
2. What attractions (page 53) made it difficult to give yourself wholly to God? How are these "created things" now integrated into your response to God's call?
3. What consolation(s) have you been given through the gift of tears?
4. Try to be aware and identify spiritual consolations each day this week. How does this impact your relationship with God?
2. What attractions (page 53) made it difficult to give yourself wholly to God? How are these "created things" now integrated into your response to God's call?
3. What consolation(s) have you been given through the gift of tears?
4. Try to be aware and identify spiritual consolations each day this week. How does this impact your relationship with God?
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Chapter 3: The Grace of Encouraging Words
1. Do you deliberately use "words of life" (encouraging and affirming words) with your child(ren)? with yourself? with those outside your home?
2. The Boys Town Model of Parenting suggests that we strive for a 5:1 ratio of positive/corrective interactions with our child(ren). Where do you fall most days? Do you see trends (times, situations, physical stresses) that increase the negative interactions? Can you take steps to change these circumstances and/or readjust your expectations?
3. How can we give words of instruction and training without nagging, criticism or reprimands?
4. Read Romans 2:4 [Or do you presume upon the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not know that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?] According to this verse, what leads us to repent? How specifically does God what you to extend his grace to your children so that his kindness, through you, will lead them to repentance?
Action Point-Take time this week to express your appreciation to those around you and to God.
2. The Boys Town Model of Parenting suggests that we strive for a 5:1 ratio of positive/corrective interactions with our child(ren). Where do you fall most days? Do you see trends (times, situations, physical stresses) that increase the negative interactions? Can you take steps to change these circumstances and/or readjust your expectations?
3. How can we give words of instruction and training without nagging, criticism or reprimands?
4. Read Romans 2:4 [Or do you presume upon the riches of his kindness and forbearance and patience? Do you not know that God's kindness is meant to lead you to repentance?] According to this verse, what leads us to repent? How specifically does God what you to extend his grace to your children so that his kindness, through you, will lead them to repentance?
Action Point-Take time this week to express your appreciation to those around you and to God.
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Chapter 3: Spiritual Generation
1. How does God's command to "increase and multiply" manifest itself in your life in the non-biological sense? (page 57)
2. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (2337) "chastity means the successful integration of sexuality within the person and thus the inner unity of man in his bodily and spiritual being. Sexuality, in which man's belonging to the bodily and biological world is expressed, becomes personal and truly human when it is integrated into the relationship of one person to another, in the complete and lifelong mutual gift of a man and a woman. The virtue of chastity therefore involves the integrity of the person and the integrality of the gift." How is chastity a source of "fire" in your marriage? (page 60)
3. As parents, we have the "power and duty to foster the vocation" of our child(ren). What practical means does this entail in your home? (pages 61, 67-72)
4. How do we invite others, especially non-believers in our own family, to embrace the faith? (page 63)
5. Sheen calls meditation the "self-denial that carries from the heart the dead things of the world." How have you seen this type of prayer bear fruit in your life? (page 67)
6. How can we help our child(ren) hear the voice of God, do good works and avoid sin? (page 70)
7. Do you have any success stories of "reform" either of yourself or your child(ren)? (page 71)
2. According to the Catechism of the Catholic Church (2337) "chastity means the successful integration of sexuality within the person and thus the inner unity of man in his bodily and spiritual being. Sexuality, in which man's belonging to the bodily and biological world is expressed, becomes personal and truly human when it is integrated into the relationship of one person to another, in the complete and lifelong mutual gift of a man and a woman. The virtue of chastity therefore involves the integrity of the person and the integrality of the gift." How is chastity a source of "fire" in your marriage? (page 60)
3. As parents, we have the "power and duty to foster the vocation" of our child(ren). What practical means does this entail in your home? (pages 61, 67-72)
4. How do we invite others, especially non-believers in our own family, to embrace the faith? (page 63)
5. Sheen calls meditation the "self-denial that carries from the heart the dead things of the world." How have you seen this type of prayer bear fruit in your life? (page 67)
6. How can we help our child(ren) hear the voice of God, do good works and avoid sin? (page 70)
7. Do you have any success stories of "reform" either of yourself or your child(ren)? (page 71)
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