I wonder about a time when you thought you couldn’t do something or when you did not trust yourself?
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I wonder what you did to believe or trust in yourself?
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I wonder who showed up to give you encouragement?
Video Conversation & Reflection
Join Reverend Sheri Nelson from the Minnesota Conference UCC and her family for this week’s conversation and reflection. Coming soon.
Music
Steady, Steady Love by Richard Bruxvoort Colligan
For Reflection
I know the wilderness, I too have been there. I’ve been there at times when I’ve had no hope. Sometimes it’s been personal. Up against a wall of failure, with no one left to blame and nothing to hide my inadequacy; or under a landslide of guilt, feeling dirty and twisted and without worth. Without that fragile hint of hope, life is a wilderness.
~ David E. Butler, Seasons of Hope
Caring for the Common Good Project
Create Big-Hearted Self-Portraits
Use this printable template and your own to design a self-portrait collage to inspire and uplift you in moments of self-doubt. Find complete project instructions and templates here.
Why does taking care of yourself – and speaking kindly to yourself – make a difference?
Films
Full-length movies: Encanto (ages 6+) Common Sense media review, The Good Dinosaur (ages 6+) Common Sense media review
Contemplative Movement
Outdoor Explore
What: Place objects that represent your self-doubts in a bag or backpack. Littles may only be able to carry one! With this added weight, walk around your neighborhood.
Reflect/Ask:
Notice how it feels to have to carry so much weight just to walk in your own community.
Return the bags/heavy objects to your home and resume walking the neighborhood.
Notice how much lighter you feel and easier it is to walk.
Where is God in the heaviness and in the lightness?
Creative Project
The Weight of Doubt
Materials: multiple heavy objects, paper & coloring utensils, tape or twine
How to: Let each person create a list of self-doubts, of not-enoughnesses.
Search around your home for multiple heavy objects (not breakable).
Assign each object a self-doubt. Consider the heap of self-doubt.
Draw or write responses to: How might you affirm one another’s strengths and gifts? Which doubts feel heaviest/lightest? Can we carry other people’s doubts for them? Why/why not?