This Sunday: Simple Sunday with Raven

1. What is your earliest memory of death or grief? Talk about what you remember about the experience or the thoughts you had as a child. What did death or grief mean when you were a kid?

2. Think of a time someone close to you died. How did you respond to that? How did grief impact you in ways you were expecting or not?

3. I invite you in to the collective work of grief. Talk about someone connected to you who has died. Who were they? What did they mean to the world?

Throughout this fall, our Gospel readings invite us to explore the kind of life and community Jesus imagines for us — a way shaped by reconciliation, forgiveness, grace, humility, welcome, justice and love.

November 15th sub-theme is: What Will We Do With What We Have?

Big Idea:
We have each been entrusted with something — time, abilities, relationships, resources, influence, creativity. Rather than living from fear or burying what we have, Jesus invites us to participate courageously in the work of love.

For Reflection:
What have you been given that you can share? Where might fear be keeping you from using something good that is already in your hands?

Scripture: Matthew 25:14–30