catch up prompts

Your prompts are on the course website and you have hard copies, but for those of you who are relying on this blog, here's a catch up list:

Chapter 4 Prompt

Email me three things that interest you in this chapter (kmunson@kentshill.org)

And choose one of the following prompts and respond  thoughtfully to it.

Option 1). In chapter 4, Jacobs talks about some of his experiments with prayer.  What comes to your mind when you hear the word, “prayer?”

What is prayer?  Give your own definition and one that you look up.

Describe types of prayer that you’ve seen, heard of, or tried.

How does Jacobs get started with his prayer experiment?

What problems does he run into?  What doe he do about them?

What’s the difference between contemplative prayer and meditation?

What does Jacobs discover?

What does Jacobs say about prayer at the end of chapter 4?

Option 2.)  Describe Jacob’s “first real Sabbath.”  How do his feelings change during this experience?  Imagine yourself in similar situation and describe your reactions.

How would it change the structure of your life if you stopped everything for one day in every seven?  What would you have to plan differently?

What do you think about Jacob’s idea, “freedom from choice?” (p. 142).

Do some research on “Sabbath,” using the internet.  What do you learn? (Remember to cite your sources).

 Chapter Five Journal Prompt

            Choose one of the prompts below.  Be sure to answer completely.

Option 1 (see Day 126)            Imagine that you are at dinner with Jacobs and wife with their friends. 

What questions and thoughts would you add to the conversation?  What experience of “sacredness,” (or absolute wonder) could you share with Jacobs?  How would you describe the God that you do or don’t believe in?  How would you describe what you’d want God to be like? (Or, what would a God worth believing in be like?)

OR

Option 2.  Judeo Christian culture defines a person as mind/body/soul.  Name at least three things going on in Jacob’s life throughout chapter five.  Describe and react to some of the things going on in Jacob’s “soul” in chapter five.  How would you define “soul?”  What do you think is the strangest thing Jacobs tries in this chapter?

Chapter Six Journal Prompt.  Free Write on the topic you think is most important in this chapter!