Questions for Sunday School, The Heart of Christianity, at First United Methodist Church in San Diego, California, United States "Deeper Than Words Brother David"

Questions for Sunday School, The Heart of Christianity, at First United Methodist Church in San Diego, California, United States "Deeper Than Words Brother David"

Creator of Heaven and Earth pages 41-45
(I will be highlighting some key phrases frequently used by Brother David)
page 41
How do you relate to the following?
1. The driving force of all creativity is love.
2. Whatever there is, is a gift freely given.
3. Love indicates an active yes to belonging.
4. Heaven (the fountainhead God’s creative action) and Earth (all that is manifest in
outer and inner reality) mean everything there is.
page 42
5. Do you experience nature as meaningful?
Do you sense in things a greater Presence that they embody? Think of how/where.
6. Can you picture God as “Giver of all (good) Gifts”? Check out Br. David’s Thanksgiving
Prayer (Giver of all Good Gifts) on YouTube.
7. “Our own creativity consists of what we make of the opportunity given to us at each
moment.”
Can you imagine opportunity given in not so great moments? Times of sadness/tragedy?
page 43
8. Can you experience the very energy of the Creator flowing through you? Can you imagine that “you are here to enable the divine purpose of the universe to unfold”?!
9. home. take care of. responsible. awe. accountability. balanced worldview. conscientious action. conscious and active affirmation of the bonds uniting us with all humans on Earth.
How do these concepts fit your picture of Creator of Heaven and Earth?
page 44
10. Consider Br. David’s experience with an iris. Do you have special memories of flowers from your childhood home? Can you experience again the fragrance of the spirea bush in the hot sun? Have you experienced time standing still?
page 45
Here’s a challenge:
John Cage: Each something is a celebration of the nothing that supports it.
Consider the question that ends this section.
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