Week One

Part 1: Unpacking boxes

Conversation Starter

What is your favourite kind of box? And what is your least favourite kind of box?

Read 1 Samuel 2: 18-21

Hannah makes Samuel a little robe every year, a gift that grows with him. What are the gifts and the hopes we are wrapping up to give to the children in our society? What do we want them to have? How can we make it happen?

Read Colossians 3: 12-17

So, where are your ‘clothes of compassion'? Are they in storage? Are they folded in a box in the back of cupboard covered in mothballs? Are you worried that perhaps they’re no longer in fashion? Or that maybe they won’t fit anymore?

Reflect on your life and contemplate how compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and patience fit into it. In what way do you ‘wear’ these traits day to day? And if you feel you don’t, how do you think you can rediscover them, and get them out the wardrobe!

Read Luke 11: 5-13

As one year comes to a close and another begins, what are we asking to receive from God?