{"id":10370,"date":"2024-05-08T09:14:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-08T14:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/faithlens\/?p=10370"},"modified":"2024-05-15T07:28:08","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T12:28:08","slug":"may-12-2024-well-see","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.elca.org\/faithlens\/may-12-2024-well-see\/","title":{"rendered":"May 12, 2024–We’ll See"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sami Johnson, Jacksonville, NC<\/strong><\/p>\n

Warm-up Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n

Name a way that God blessed you this past week.<\/p>\n

We’ll See<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you have a preschool aged child in your household, then it\u2019s likely you\u2019ve watched the recently-released episode of Bluey called \u201cThe Sign.\u201d In the first week of its release, it was viewed 10.4 million times! Without giving too much away, the episode begins with all of the children in Bluey\u2019s class hearing their teacher, Calypso, read a Taoist parable called \u201cThe Farmer.\u201d<\/p>\n

In this parable, a series of events happen to the Farmer. While the farmer\u2019s neighbors comment on\"\"<\/a> everything that happens by saying how lucky or unlucky he is, the farmer replies with only, \u201cWe\u2019ll see.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most of us are like the neighbors in the parable. On the one hand, when good things happen to us, we are happy and we tend to accept them without questioning them. On the other hand, when bad things happen to us, we get angry, frustrated, or sad and we try to figure out why this thing happened. Was it our fault or someone else\u2019s fault? We try to figure out how to make it better.<\/p>\n

Discussion Questions<\/strong><\/p>\n