Scripps Sundays

 I am sending this a few days early as I will get to see you this weekend in Santa Fe! And since Thursday nights are your movie nights, I thought this was a perfect post to share. It's a lesson plan that I saw from Common Sense Media, but it relates to so many of the things I think you have been learning about yourself lately that I thought you'd appreciate it.  Inside Out and SEL: A Movie Guide and Lesson Plan for Your Classroom Help students reflect on the social and emotional aspects of the movie and consider how their own emotions work. Pixar's  Inside Out  is a movie that's all about feelings, and this makes it perfect for sparking discussions with kids about social and emotional learning. Since the central characters all embody a different emotion, students learn to see parts of themselves or their experiences in each character. Refreshingly, the movie doesn't make learning about emotions such a heavy-handed endeavor. By getting to...

 

Dear Anna,  I had the chance to do the devotion for Faculty Senate this month at SPU, and I ended up writing up my reflections for that devotion for a blog called Godspace. It was posted a few days ago on their site. May these words bring encouragement to you today.  ....and Happy Sunday!  XOXO,  Mom  https://godspacelight.com/2022/03/23/keep-watch/ KEEP WATCH March 23, 2022 by  Emily Huff We have been living in a global pandemic for over two years now, as Friday, March 11th marked two years since the World Health Organization officially declared the Covid-19 pandemic. On top of that, we see troubling news each day in Ukraine, and it is hard to wrap our minds around what is happening around us as it seems that the world is on fire and there is no safe place.  An article from Education Week that I read in January was titled, “ Stress, Hypervigilance, and Decision Fatigue: Teaching During Omicron,”  and many of us can relate to the way the article...

Novelist and poet Barbara Kingsolver has published 16 books over the course of her career, but the last months of the 20th century marked a turning point. Not only did she publish “The Poisonwood Bible” in 1998, a novel that sold more than 4 million copies, but the following year she founded what’s now called the PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, North America’s largest monetary award for an unpublished work of fiction. In a 2015 interview, Kingsolver emphasized her passion for helping individuals find their voices. Through listening and processing what’s going on around us — and in other communities — we'll encounter and come up with new ideas, allowing us to advance the conversation.

This picture pretty much sums up the last week with you here for spring break.... what a gift to soak up time together. You brought the sunshine for sure!  I loved our conversation about values and narrowing down some of our thoughts together.  I looked up some passages for both of us about our words.  I hope these bring you some encouragement and focus this week.  Stewardship: Each of you should use whatever gift you have received to serve others, as faithful stewards of God’s grace in its various forms. 1 Peter 4:10   Whatever you do, work at it with all your heart, as working for the Lord, not for human masters… Colossians 3:23   This, then, is how you ought to regard us: as servants of Christ and as those entrusted with the mysteries God has revealed.    Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found trustworthy. 1 Corinthians 4:1-2 Do not lay up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy and where thieves...

As you are camping this weekend in Anza Borrego Desert State Park and because you are one of my favorite tree huggers, I thought you would love this reflection from one of my colleagues here at SPU.  And HAPPY 13th!!  cedar of Lebanon  What are trees good for? (What are the cedars of Lebanon good for)? Psalm 104 10   You make springs gush forth in the valleys;           they flow between the hills, 11   giving drink to every wild animal;           the wild asses quench their thirst. 12   By the streams the birds of the air have their habitation;           they sing among the branches. 13   From your lofty abode you water the mountains;           the earth is satisfied with the fruit of your work. 14   You cause the g...