For generosity we talked a lot about tithing. And not just money, but time and talents as well. For many high school students, this is what they can give.
At the end of the night I gave the girls a sheet with contact information on things they could do in their own community to be generous, [...]
Archive for the ‘Fruits of the Spirit’ Category
25 Dec
Fruits of the Spirit: Generosity
23 Dec
Fruits of the Spirit: Self-Control
Ah, self control. Everyone’s favorite!
Once again, I’m pretty vague on this one. I remember that we talked of temptation and what we can do to combat that, but I can’t remember exactly what we discussed.
Sorry
22 Dec
Fruits of the Spirit: Gentleness
Gentleness was a fun one. It ended up going two weeks, we were having so much fun with it.
I knew that one of the first things the girls would think of when I mentioned gentleness is weakness, because that is the rep that being gentle gets. So, first I found an article that we all [...]
21 Dec
Fruits of The Spirit: Goodness
Whoops. I know, I know. I haven’t been keeping up with these. The good news is that we are on break and I will finish up the series with my posts on goodness, gentleness, self-control, chastity, modesty and generosity. The bed news is that I don’t think I kept my notes so this will all [...]
25 Sep
Fruits of the Spirit: Faithfulness
Yes, I know, we skipped goodness. Don’t worry, we will come back for it. We skipped over goodness because while the girls are studying the fruits of the spirit, the boys have been studying the virtues of saint Joseph (based on this book). Their next virtue was faithfulness, so we decided to skip ahead and [...]
21 Sep
Fruits of the Spirit: Kindness
I’m a little behind schedule on these, but that’s ok.
For our discussion on kindness, we started out talking about acts of kindness. Scratch that. The first time we talked about kindness, we started talking about forgiveness and that segued into a Q&A session over Catholic theology.
The SECOND time we talked about kindness, we talked about [...]
7 Sep
Fruits of the Spirit: Patience
It’s been awhile, I know! We covered patience a few weeks ago. Then we had XLT. This week we talked about something completely different. So technically, I’m not that far behind. But here’s what we talked about:
Patience is a characteristic of God: Exodus 34:6
Colossians 3:12-13
Psalm 37:7-10
James 5:7-8, 10-11
Example of someone with no patience:
Sarah!
Read Genesis 15:5, [...]
14 Aug
Fruits of the Spirit: Peace
I’ll admit it. Before Mon/Tues, I thought this week’s discussion on peace would be light. I thought I’d have to fill the time because honestly, how long could we talk about peace? There’s almost never any controversy over that (it would be ironic if there was, wouldn’t it?)
Then I started studying up on it. Boy [...]
1 Aug
Fruits of the Spirit: Joy
This week in WOW we tackled the second listed fruit of the spirit: joy! I think it went well. the girls consistently amaze me with their insights and this week I got the pleasure of watching their brains come to some understanding.
I did something a little different this week. Knowing how most girls love quotes, [...]
26 Jul
Fruits of the Spirit: Love
I knew that as soon as I wrote that I would post about our fruits of the spirit series at WOW, I would slack off. In my defense, we’ve only talked about one over the course of two weeks, and then this past Wednesday was XLT.
We began with Love because, well, Paul does. We discussed [...]
