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Gratitude

Still Waters

Thank you, Connie Hanks, for sharing this one! wow!

Dinner At Great Grandparents

  • Everyone's eating

  • Everyone's laughing

  • Uncles, Aunts, Cousins

  • Everyone is having great conversation except to GG

  • At the end, everyone says TY for the dinner, can't wait to come back at Christmas for your Cobbler.

  • No one really cared to get to know the Great Grandparents.

  • I won't how they would have felt? Used? Manipulated?

Perhaps we need to consider how this must feel to God when our prayers are all about what we need instead of how we could get to know Him more.

PURPOSE LESSON

Continuation of 8/8

Matt 22:36-40, 28:19

John 3: 16-17

Acts 1:8


GOAL

The goal of this session is to assist the teens in examining their desires, specifically the root of those desires, how they connect to our innate human desires, and where these desires truly point (toward God).

KEY CONCEPTS

We are all created with inherent desires and spend our lives trying to discover and fulfill them. When we try to fill our deepest longings with things other than God, we often feel unfulfilled and disappointed. There is something greater in store for us. Our earthly desires point us in the direction of our heavenly yearning.

KEY TERMS

Concupiscence: Human desires which remain disordered due to the temporal consequences of original sin, which remain even after baptism, and which produce an inclination to sin.

Happiness: Regularly used in Scripture to describe the lot of those who are blessed by God for doing His will, and the reward of the just for their faithful service on Earth. Happiness is a divine gift but requires human’s cooperation to be gained.

Yearning: A feeling of intense longing.

SCRIPTURES:

Acts 17:27,

Joshua 24:15

Gal 6

1 Cor 2

DESIRE