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Analysis: What sense can you make of the situation?ĥ. Evaluation: What was good and bad about the experience?Ĥ. Feelings: What were you thinking and feeling?ģ. Professor Graham Gibbs created a model for personal reflection called the “Reflective Cycle.” His chart includes:Ģ. Why bother remembering something so difficult? Those of us who have lived through 2020 may also benefit in the future from instituting a similar Feast of Shelters to reflect each year on what we learned when the threat of sickness and our shuttered doors forced us to educate our children at home and erase every plan from our calendars.Įxperts agree that reflection is an essential practice for those desiring a vibrant interior life. Other versions of the Bible translate the word “booth” as “shelter.”Īfter their experience of lostness and despair, they continued to celebrate the Feast of Shelters even after they were safe, secure and settled back in their own land. They wanted to remember their years of wandering in the desert when the temple of God was a temporary structure called a tabernacle.

In ancient history, the Hebrews celebrated a festival called the Feast of Booths. Studies show that reflecting on past experiences aid more in learning and personal growth than shoring up new knowledge. When I was a teacher, I often assigned “reflections” to my middle school students after field trips, science experiments, or completing a novel as a way of shifting lived knowledge into their longer term memory. Poet and novelist May Sarton wrote in her published journals, “friends, even passionate love, are not my real life unless there is time alone in which to explore and to discover what is happening or has happened.” One man in hospice said cancer eventually led him to transform neutral moments in life into meaningful ones.Įducational reformer John Dewey once wrote that we “we do not learn from experience … we learn from reflecting on experience.” Teachers, spiritual leaders, athletes, business professionals, poets, and scientists already know the value of self-reflection. But we can easily miss the chance to extract meaning from our conflict and questions if we don’t stop and reflect. Intense life experiences illuminate the essential and dim the superficial. Joe later writes to Kathleen: “There was a man sitting in the elevator with me who knew exactly what he wanted, and I found myself wishing I were as lucky as he.” When Joe’s girlfriend interrupts his heart-felt survival wish to blurt out that she’s getting her eyes lasered when she gets out, Joe realizes he’s with the wrong woman. I don’t know what’s been stopping me,” says the elevator attendant. “I’m gonna start speaking to my mama,” one woman says. Remember that elevator scene from You’ve Got Mail? The one where Joe Fox, acted by Tom Hanks, and his girlfriend get stuck in an elevator with two other people and they each tell what they’ll do “if I ever get out of here.” I keep thinking about that scene. This post includes affiliate links for Bookshop, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. The goal is to show how scripture, tradition, reason, and experience all support a posture of equality toward women, one that favors mutuality rather than hierarchy, in the home, Church, and society.

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“One in Christ: A Week of Mutuality,” a blog series by Rachel Held Evans dedicated to discussing an egalitarian view of gender-including relevant biblical texts and practical applications. The Junia Project–provides support, encouragement, and biblically-based resources to help women thrive in all areas of life.ĬBE International–Proclaiming God’s design for equal partnership between men and women. Marg Mowczko–a website exploring the biblical theology of Christian egalitarianism. Women in a Patriarchal World by Elaine Storkey How I Changed My Mind about Women in Leadership: Compelling Stories from Prominent Evangelicals by Alan F.

Great Women of the Christian Faith by Edith Deen