Description

This week on the MATM podcast, we look at The Sandlot as a way to build friendships and find joy. We’ve got to break out of our comfortable rut, but it’s through new experiences that relationships are strengthened. To make memories and find joy, we have to engage the senses. But if we can do that, we will find that every day is an adventure. You’re killing me Smalls, and let’s discover God’s truth in this movie.

Questions

• What are the sandlot type memories from your childhood? Who’s there? Where were you? What were you doing?
• Think back to some of your happiest memories. Where is there a bit of nostalgia, a twinge of sorrow involved?
• When was the last time you were so excited you freaked out?
• Do you approach your days expecting to be surprised by God? What would that look like?
• What was the last playful thing you did? Something you did simply for the joy of doing it?
• What new experiences are you engaging in?
• When was the last time you made s’mores?
• How can you engage the senses in a playful way?
• How does a cynical or skeptical approach shut you down to experience joy and surprise?
• What would it look like to approach each day with childlike wonder?
• How do you receive extravagant gifts? “It’s too much?” Try to balance the scales, like you have to give them an awesome gift in exchange? Can you receive it with simple gratitude and joy?

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Edited and mixed by Grayson Foster (https://graysonfoster.com/)

Audio quotes performed by Britt Mooney, Paul McDonald, and Tim Willard, taken from Epic (written by John Eldredge) and Song of Albion (written by Stephen Lawhead).

Southerly Change performed by Zane Dickinson, used under license from Shutterstock