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Task 2: Animation processes
Our next task for this week is to research three different approaches to creating animation. I will refer to my favorite animation ,and then three more I researched and found interesting as part of this task.
Favorite :Cartoon Saloon's Wolfwalkers(2020) 2D
Cartoon saloons works are by far to me some of the best 2D animated works i have seen for awhile, from their colorful hand drawn/painted background to the integration of Irish design and folklore into the actual processes. Their style is unique and is commonly referenced to the style found in Irish manuscripts (big eyes connected to the nose and brow+ triscles +spirals +Celtic jewelry +much more references).Their style is animated with such a flow that it pulled me in when i first watched Book Of Kells 2009 and has since heightened in quality
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I have also found other styles of animation I found to be intriguing:
1.PAINT OF GLASS ANIMATION:
The pain of glass techniques where the artist modifies the wet medium being pain either oil or gouache on a smoothed surface taking a photograph with each modification made while pushing the medium. Although very time consuming(and time I do not have )I feel this animation type being both the electives together for me. Combining design and fine art into something I think I would love to work on if I had the time ->'The Old Man And The Sea' Directory and Animator :Aleksandr Petrov 1999
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2.ERASORE ANIMATION
This style of animation uses white paper, a pencil or charcoal and an eraser.2D based images are manipulated over time by drawing erasing and drawing the next frame similar to stop motion. I feel like this animation type would be hard to concentrate with as there is only black and white also considering there is only one layer to work on it would be hard for me to concentrate on the next frame->'Mine' by William Kentridge 1991
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3.ROTOSOPE ANIMATION
This style of animation is when a video is used from real actors or fils which will be transformed into animation by drawing each frame of movement from the video. This created a realistic uncanny affect and allows the animator to make scenes easier like crowds whilst also adding their own interpretation onto the rotoscope. I feel this style of animation would help me make the bustling ghost crowd in my animation concept for this elective BUT I would struggle actually getting video footage of that many people.->'Loving Vincent'2017
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Top 6 reasons why you should study abroad in Ireland
With around 20,000 non-EU occupants currently deciding to concentrate on full time in Ireland, 'The Emerald Isle' is quickly developing as an area to concentrate abroad.
Truth be told, this figure is relied upon to continue to develop as the actual country turns out to be more multicultural, instruction centered, and universally disapproved. What was once considered to be a curious little country close to home is currently turning out to be increasingly more perceived a significant global monetary center point. It's home to an abundance of major worldwide partnerships, and flaunts a glad scholastic standing, as well as a warm, inviting, and giggling adoring society.
In truth, the rundown of motivations to concentrate on abroad in Ireland could be a genuinely lengthy one, however we've attempted to limit it down to only 6 significant things to assist you with thinking about contemplating in Ireland.
Why study in Ireland?
1. Top class school system
With one of Europe's highest level school systems, you can concentrate on pretty much any degree in Ireland and your certifications will be perceived from one side of the planet to the other. However, unique notice goes to Ireland's colleges for their headway in fields like science, drugs, and innovation. Indeed, Ireland has turned into a notable global focal point for logical examination - in 2019, 28 Irish based researchers were positioned in the top 1% on the planet for their work!
Be that as it may, Ireland isn't all realities and rationale and reason - this is the place where there is holy people and researchers all things considered! Here is a speedy piece of random data Given its rich erudite history, Ireland's colleges offer phenomenal English Literature degrees. Without a doubt, Trinity College's library in Dublin is home to one of the most well known and huge books ever, the 1000+ year old, middle age time Book of Kells.
2. Employment open doors
We referenced above how a degree from an Irish college is acknowledged everywhere. This intends that assuming you study in Ireland, you're setting yourself up well for work. This sounds valid particularly for work in Ireland itself, where the flourishing economy has brought about an interest for talented alumni, as well as students who wish to work parttime close by their examinations. In the Republic of Ireland, understudies might apply for work grants, while heaps of colleges work with entry level positions for global understudies.
Whenever you've graduated, you should remain longer in Ireland, where a portion of the world's biggest organizations base themselves.
3. Ireland is a little, delightful island with an intriguing story
Notwithstanding its little size, where you can travel pretty much anyplace inside seven or eight hours, Ireland is really two nations in one. Whenever we say Ireland, we normally infer the Republic of Ireland. But at the same time there's Northern Ireland, a minuscule state in the upper east. Until around 100 years prior, the whole island was one country under UK rule. Then, at that point, there was somewhat of a conflict (to put it gently), thus an autonomous Republic of Ireland was made. In Northern Ireland in any case, there was substantially more help for UK rule, so it has stayed a piece of the UK.
In any case, interestingly, you probably won't see this distinction today. There's no line between the two nations, and residents are allowed to come, go, live and fill in however they see fit. The main observable contrasts are that the North actually utilizes the British Pound while the Republic utilizes the Euro, the North purposes miles and the Republic utilizes kilometers, and street signs in the Republic are in both English and Irish Gaelic!
Regardless of where you go, The Emerald Isle is a stunner spot. The significant urban areas of Dublin, Galway, Cork and Belfast (in Northern Ireland) are wealthy in noticeable history and appeal. In the interim, the totally open field is scantily populated and presents staggering perspectives on seas and mountains.
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4. Diversity of societies
Generally, Ireland was a genuinely homogenous country, with its kin for the most part Caucasian and Christian. In any case, this has changed massively over the most recent 20 years or something like that. These days, particularly in the greater urban communities, it's a magnificent mixture of culture and identity. This equivalent variety should be visible on school grounds, which are strongholds of consideration and resistance. This is thanks to some extent to the flourishing economy, as well as an open migration strategy. Strolling through the roads of advanced Dublin specifically is an educational encounter, with an incredible variety of accents, dialects, races and religions.
5. Level up your English
While Ireland's local language is Irish (or Gaelic), the essential language is English. Truth be told, everybody from Ireland can communicate in English, however the local language's experiencing difficulties to get by.
Yet, similarly as accents contrast from one spot to another in the UK and the USA, Ireland has its own characteristics and secrets to dominate. We'd say it's somewhat more clear than the Scottish inflection, however somewhat more troublesome than the more broadly heard southern-English one. Indeed, inside the small island of Ireland itself, the accents change fiercely from one locale to another. Plug, Galway, Belfast and Derry each have particular accents, while Dublin itself has two distinct accents of its own!
Take a gander at it along these lines, assuming you can dominate English in Ireland (which you certainly can), you can dominate English anyplace!
6. Close closeness to Europe
Ireland's area makes it a sensational base for additional investigating Europe assuming that you extravagant a tad of movement on your ends of the week and occasions. London in 60 minutes? Amsterdam in an hour and a half? Probably the best thing about living in Europe is the way that there are simply such countless various nations and societies inside only hours of one another. Furthermore, it's all really reasonable as well, with spending plan carriers flying consistently to and from central area Europe.
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March Wrap-Up
Books Finished: 3
Total Pages Read: 768 (~24.7 pages per day)
Even though my reading has picked up dramatically since the start of the year March ended up being my worst reading month all year. If you had told me this time last year that finishing two books and a graphic novel would constitute as a bad reading month I would have just laughed at you so I honestly can’t really complain about the progress I have made reading-wise during March. Even though this means I did miss out on my goal of reading 1,000 pages a month I have still read a little over 3,000 since the start of the year so past me has helped me out on this one and kept me on track! March has been one of the most hectic months ever uni wise and so hopefully during April (of which I have most of the month off for Easter break) I can hopefully make up for this.
I was also lucky enough to attend two events book in March- one with V.E. Schwab to promote her release of both The Near Witch and The Steel Prince (and I will always stand by the fact that Victoria is one of the loveliest women I have ever met) and the other with Katherine Arden to promote the release of The Winter of the Witch - the sequel to The Girl in the Tower which, spoiler alert, I read during March!
Also apologies for the lack of picture this month - I don’t have all of the books I read this month with me at uni as I took a few of them back home so I decided to pass on the picture as I can assure you it wouldn’t have been a very exciting one!
Books Read In March
A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab
Read Between: 15th February 2019 - 13th March 2019
Genre: Young adult fantasy
Pages: 666
Ratings
Overall: 4.2/5 stars
Plot: 4/5 stars
Writing Style: 4/5 stars
Characters: 5/5 stars
Setting: 5/5 stars
Cover: 3/5 stars
Summary
A Conjuring of Light is the third and final book in the Shades of Magic series. Obviously I won’t be going into the summary for this book as it would be extremely hard to avoid spoilers but for anyone who has not heard of this series before it is a fantasy series set across four parallel London’s - red, white, grey and black. All of these four Londons have their own, and sometimes troubled, relationship with magic and the series follows Kell Maresh, adoptive prince of red London and Antari - a magician with the ability to travel between the four Londons.
My Thoughts
Since we met Delilah Bard in A Darker Shade of Magic she has remained one of my all time favourite characters I have ever met. While that is obviously still true, this third book highlights just how well this band of quirky characters gel together so incredibly well.
I absolutely adored the reference towards the start of the book to the scene in A Darker Shade of Magic where Delilah ties Kell to her bed after coming to blows with him the first time they meet. That scene in A Darker Shade of Magic is one of my favourite scenes in the whole series and so any little hint to this will be sure to bring a smile to my face.
The Steel Prince by V.E. Schwab
Read Between: 14th March 2019 - 17th March 2019
Genre: Young Adult Fantasy
Pages: 112
Ratings
Overall: 3.7/5 stars
Plot: 4/5 stars
Writing Style: 4/5 stars
Characters: 3.5/5 stars
Setting: 3.5/5 stars
Cover: 3.5/5 stars
Summary
The Steel Prince is a graphic novel set in the world of the Shades of Magic series and follows the back-story of King Maxim Maresh as a prince in Red London. His Father, Nikolai sends him out of the capital to an army camp in the port city of Verose and it is here where he comes to blows with the infamous pirate queen Arisa.
My Thoughts
I am actually a little ashamed to say that this is the first graphic novel I have actually ever read and after reading The Steel Prince I can safely say that it will not be my last. My worry with graphic novels was that I would not be able to understand the plot as easily as I would be able to with a regular novel and I think the fact that I was so familiar with the world of Red London and some of the characters from The Steel Prince from reading the Shades of Magic series, this helped to dispel virtually all this worry.
The element of bone magic is something which is touched on very little within the Shades of Magic series however I thought it translated brilliantly into the much more visual element of a graphic novel.
The Girl in the Tower by Katherine Arden
Read Between: 1st March 2019 - 27th March 2019
Genre: Historical fiction/ fantasy
Pages: 364
Ratings
Overall: 3.9/5 stars
Plot: 4/5 stars
Writing Style: 4/5 stars
Characters: 3/5 stars
Setting: 4.5/5 stars
Cover: 4/5 stars
Summary
The Girl in the Tower is the sequel to The Bear and the Nightingale and the second book in the Winternight trilogy. The trilogy centres on Vasilisa, a girl growing up in a small village, trapped within the almost perpetual grasp of a harsh Russian winter. The Bear and the Nightingale follows the majority of the early part of her life growing up in this village and the slightly fantastical events that ensure Vasya’s life is never quiet for long.
My Thoughts
I ended up enjoying The Girl in the Tower much more than I did with The Bear and the Nightingale. Having now read the sequel it honestly feels to me like the first book in the series was really setting up for this one in the sense that we really got to see a lot more action and a lot more of a storyline if I am honest. Looking back now on the previous book there seemed to be a lot happening in it (in terms of Vasya and her life) but there did not really seem to be a huge deal of action or detail as the book covered such a huge time span. I appreciate that there was a good percentage of that detail needed to be given in order to gain an understanding of the rest of the story but there were a lot of characters and events that seemed to be referenced very little in this sequel.
That all being said I am still completely in love with the setting for this series. The Bear and the Nightingale was a book I stumbled upon while out shopping for some ‘wintry’ books last year and while the second book takes place in a very different environment from the first - moving from a small, wintry Russian village into the heart of Moscow - that element of ‘snowy comfort’ was still there.
I have now read a few books in which a female main character disguises themselves as a boy in order to achieve a different ‘path’ for themselves. What struck me as different with regards to this book and what i found interesting was the fact that, at times, Vasya did not seem to have entirely thought her plan through and was instead facing challenges and hurdles as they were presented to her. To me this painted a much more realistic picture of the situation instead of having everything planned out and every eventually covered.
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iBooks for iPad (2015 Edition) Sean Kells Genre: Computers Price: $5.99 Publish Date: December 3, 2014 This handy guide covers all of iBooks, Apple's chart-topping ebook reader tuned to work with your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac. If you're coming from the Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Noble Nook, you'll find the steps needed to make a smooth transition to iBooks. • Use just your fingers to page through books, read PDF files, interact with multimedia textbooks, create bookmarks, and highlight and annotate passages. • Use built-in search and navigation features to find words or phrases anywhere in a book and quickly jump to specific pages. • Share quotes from books via Mail, Messages, Twitter, or Facebook. • Adjust screen brightness for ambient light and change a book's text size, font, and layout to suit your eyesight and reading speed. • Stock and organize your library by buying books from the iBooks Store, downloading free (and DRM-free) books from the internet, and converting books to EPUB format. • Sync your library across all your iOS devices automatically. • Subscribe to magazines and newspapers or buy single issues. • Plenty of tips, tricks, and timesavers. • Fully cross-referenced, linked, and searchable. Contents 1. Getting Started with iBooks 2. Stocking Your Library 3. Organizing Your Library 4. Reading Books 5. Reading PDFs 6. Newsstand 7. Interactive Textbooks About the Author Sean Kells is a human-interface designer based in Seattle, Washington. When he's not pushing pixels, Sean paints foreboding seascapes, plays backgammon for blood, and takes his dog surfing. Sean has written guides to Numbers, Pages, Keynote, and iBooks.
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iBooks for iPad (2015 Edition) Sean Kells Genre: Computers Price: $5.99 Publish Date: December 3, 2014 This handy guide covers all of iBooks, Apple's chart-topping ebook reader tuned to work with your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac. If you're coming from the Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Noble Nook, you'll find the steps needed to make a smooth transition to iBooks. • Use just your fingers to page through books, read PDF files, interact with multimedia textbooks, create bookmarks, and highlight and annotate passages. • Use built-in search and navigation features to find words or phrases anywhere in a book and quickly jump to specific pages. • Share quotes from books via Mail, Messages, Twitter, or Facebook. • Adjust screen brightness for ambient light and change a book's text size, font, and layout to suit your eyesight and reading speed. • Stock and organize your library by buying books from the iBooks Store, downloading free (and DRM-free) books from the internet, and converting books to EPUB format. • Sync your library across all your iOS devices automatically. • Subscribe to magazines and newspapers or buy single issues. • Plenty of tips, tricks, and timesavers. • Fully cross-referenced, linked, and searchable. Contents 1. Getting Started with iBooks 2. Stocking Your Library 3. Organizing Your Library 4. Reading Books 5. Reading PDFs 6. Newsstand 7. Interactive Textbooks About the Author Sean Kells is a human-interface designer based in Seattle, Washington. When he's not pushing pixels, Sean paints foreboding seascapes, plays backgammon for blood, and takes his dog surfing. Sean has written guides to Numbers, Pages, Keynote, and iBooks.
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iBooks for iPad (2015 Edition) Sean Kells Genre: Computers Price: $5.99 Publish Date: December 3, 2014 This handy guide covers all of iBooks, Apple's chart-topping ebook reader tuned to work with your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac. If you're coming from the Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Noble Nook, you'll find the steps needed to make a smooth transition to iBooks. • Use just your fingers to page through books, read PDF files, interact with multimedia textbooks, create bookmarks, and highlight and annotate passages. • Use built-in search and navigation features to find words or phrases anywhere in a book and quickly jump to specific pages. • Share quotes from books via Mail, Messages, Twitter, or Facebook. • Adjust screen brightness for ambient light and change a book's text size, font, and layout to suit your eyesight and reading speed. • Stock and organize your library by buying books from the iBooks Store, downloading free (and DRM-free) books from the internet, and converting books to EPUB format. • Sync your library across all your iOS devices automatically. • Subscribe to magazines and newspapers or buy single issues. • Plenty of tips, tricks, and timesavers. • Fully cross-referenced, linked, and searchable. Contents 1. Getting Started with iBooks 2. Stocking Your Library 3. Organizing Your Library 4. Reading Books 5. Reading PDFs 6. Newsstand 7. Interactive Textbooks About the Author Sean Kells is a human-interface designer based in Seattle, Washington. When he's not pushing pixels, Sean paints foreboding seascapes, plays backgammon for blood, and takes his dog surfing. Sean has written guides to Numbers, Pages, Keynote, and iBooks.
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Week 26: Prophets in Pain, Part 2
1. RECAP & PREPARING FOR CG
Daily Reading for Week
Jeremiah 23-25, Psalm 19
Jeremiah 26-29, Psalm 20
Jeremiah 30-32, Psalm 21
Jeremiah 33-36, Psalm 22
Jeremiah 37-39, Psalm 23
Jeremiah 40-44, Psalm 24
Jeremiah 45-48, Psalm 25
Resources for Week
Read Scripture Video: Jeremiah and The Law (themed video)
2. FOCUS OF TIME TOGETHER
To try to really grasp the events and emotions of Israel’s exile in order to orient ourselves in the world of Jeremiah and the prophets.
3. GROUND RULE / GOAL / VALUE FOR THE WEEK
Value: Our values for this week are attentiveness and empathy. When others are sharing, be aware of your posture toward them. Don’t be on your phone or thinking about what you are going to say next. Practice giving the person speaking your undivided attention and try to empathize with what they are saying.
4. CONNECTION AND UNITY EXERCISE (MUTUAL INVITATION)
Is there anyone in the group who has ever been forced to flee from their home or witnessed their family or someone close to them forced to flee from the country or place they grew up?
If so, ask this person if they’d be comfortable sharing what that experience was like.
If there isn’t anyone with a story like this, have each person share in 1 minute what they imagine it would feel like if they had to flee home tonight to escape danger. If everyone shares, use mutual invitation.
5. OPENING PRAYER
Read Psalm 130 as your opening prayer.
6. INTRO TO DISCUSSION
Many of us have been disoriented and weary of the prophets, especially in Jeremiah. You’re not alone. In Interpreting the Prophets, scholar Aaron Chalmers says:
“Many Christians remain confused and frustrated by these works. They are full of dramatic imagery whose meaning is not always clear. Sometimes there appears to be little rhyme or reason in the flow of their thought. They include numerous references to events from Israel’s history and life, the significance of which we do not grasp. It is perhaps little wonder, therefore, that the prophets are so frequently misunderstood and misapplied by many within the Church.”
Specifically, to understand the prophets we need to understand Israel’s exile. Jeremiah in particular lives through and helps chronicle the many phases of exile. Before we begin, let’s take a few extra minutes to try to understand what the exile really entailed.
First, there was a severe drought which led to severe and large-scale famine. As an agrarian culture entirely dependent on each year’s harvest for food, a few years of drought meant absolute tragedy. The first several chapters of Jeremiah take place in the context of this drought. Though unrelated to any of the political or military strife that is yet to come, this drought was the first part of Judah’s divine punishment for their sin and idolatry. To get a feel for what it was like, compare it to the Dust Bowl in Depression-era America or the many African famines that still occur today.
In addition to this natural disaster, incredible social chaos had begun to unfold. Sandwiched between the mighty empires of Egypt and Babylon, tiny little Judah laid exposed and vulnerable to violent exploitation. During the next couple decades, which the book of Jeremiah chronicles, the country became a place of utter chaos and injustice. Jews who lived rurally on farms and in small villages had zero protection from military troops and armed villains. Violence spread throughout the countryside, and the people themselves devolved into a state of self-destructive chaos. There was no justice in the land. Someone could enter your home and murder your family and no government or police force was there to help. Many who could afford it fled to Jerusalem to live behind the protection of the city walls, but many others suffered and perished. Perhaps compare it to living in Syria or the ISIS-haunted Middle East — or, sadly, in Israel today.
Consequently, Babylon, the biggest bully of them all, resolved to overthrow Judah entirely by sacking Jerusalem, which was their capital and fortress. Ancient warfare was slow and painful. When Babylon set out to “attack” Jerusalem, this means that they dispatched an army of soldiers with loads of supplies to set up camp around the walls of the city. As the army approached, the Jews fled in retreat to Jerusalem, after which they shut the gate. But all of the food supply was outside in the fields. So Babylon simply waited while the people of Jerusalem slowly starved to death. Tragically, the terrible prediction that mothers would eat their own children (Jeremiah 19:8-9) began to come true (Lamentations 2:20). Anyone who tried to flee from the city was killed by the troops outside, and those who stayed faced the horror of famine (Lamentations 1:20).
After four months, many inhabitants of Jerusalem decided to make a break for it. They waited until nighttime and broke a hole in the wall and ran (Jeremiah 39:2, 52:6-9). Even the king fled! Some escaped, but many were captured. And while they ran, the Babylonian army came flooding into the city, setting buildings on fire, murdering many, and capturing Jewish survivors. The fatal blow came when the mighty and sacred Temple — Solomon’s great house for God — was pillaged and destroyed. Mighty Babylon leveled little Judah to the ground.
Finally, for those who weren’t executed on the spot, two forms of exile occurred: most were forcefully deported to Babylon while the poor were left in Judah to try to keep the vineyards and crops alive. Those who remained did so having lost their family, their homes, their government, and to the Jewish mind, even God’s presence since the Temple had been destroyed. Those who were deported would have struggled to survive as poor, marginalized foreigners in a land not their own. Much like the diaspora of Africans sold in the slave trade, this exile violently weakened the Jews’ sense of national and religious identity. The people of God were made nobodies. To try to picture this, consider the horrors of the Holocaust, American slavery, or the Cherokee Nation’s Trail of Tears. Consider also the millions of undocumented immigrants currently living in America with the fear of deportation.
This was Israel’s experience that we summarize as exile. It was indeed a very dark period of history. And particularly, it was a dark lowpoint in the Bible’s story of God’s people. Much earlier in the story, after their rescue from Egypt, God warned Israel that if they broke their side of the Sinai Covenant, “I will scatter you among the nations and will draw my sword and pursue you. Your land will be laid to waste, and your cities will lie in ruins” (Leviticus 26:33). Despite this early warning, Israel arrogantly believed that because God chose them as the nation to demonstrate His saving love to the nations, they would always be safe from destruction and exile. This belief continued into the time of Jeremiah despite continued warnings and corrections from different prophets. Exile seemed an impossible outcome, but it was actually forewarned from the beginning. In other words, we should read the book of Jeremiah and the rest of the prophetic books which take place in the context of exile in light of this overarching story.
7. LARGE GROUP DISCUSSION
Questions for Interacting with Scripture:
These questions are to help us slow down to taste and notice Scripture, savor its richness, and meditate on its complexity of meaning.
Aaron Chalmers, in Interpreting the Prophets, describes the experience of those that were led away as follows:
“We need to be careful of glossing over the significant suffering and trauma which would have been raised by the experience of exile. Recent anthropological research has shown that such forced migrations constitute a serious socio-psychological crisis which would have ‘forced the deportees into destabilizing re calibrations of their communal and theological understandings’ (Moore and Kelle, 2001: 364). The loss of their homeland, the destruction of the Temple, and the physical sufferings and psychological terror inflicted by enemy armies must have led to intense theological ferment among the exiles in Babylon as they sought to find meaning in the series of tragedies they had suffered and discern the future of their relationship with Yahweh.”
How does walking through the details of Israel’s exile and trying to wrap your mind around the felt experience help shine new light on what you’ve been reading?
Have someone read Psalm 137, a psalm written in exile, aloud. How does a sufficient understanding of the sheer agony of exile help you understand and even empathize with the brutally honest prayers of this psalm?
In the intro we recognized how difficult and disorienting the prophets can be. Because of this, we often read a book like Jeremiah and halfway through feel desperate to grab onto any verse that can be meaningful for us today, even if we aren’t quite sure of its context. It’s not a coincidence that one of the most popular verses from Jeremiah is 29:11: “For I know the plans I have for you”, declares the Lord, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.”
When you consider that this is written to someone who just experienced being captured by the enemy and led into exile, how does it change your understanding of this popular verse?
8. SMALL GROUP DISCUSSION
Remain in your small groups and finish with the closing prayer.
Consider the modern examples we referenced in the intro to try to contextualize the different phases of Israel’s exile: starving to death in the Dust Bowl, fleeing from the horrors of ISIS, being deported from your homeland and forced to assimilate into a foreign culture, or being made into a slave.
Which of these forms of suffering strike at your heart?
What would such an experience make you feel?
In that situation, what would you want to tell God?
What would give you hope?
What would you want God to do if you knew this was going to be your reality for 70 years? (cf. Jeremiah 29:10)
9. CLOSING
Often, it is incredibly difficult to look suffering in the face. We tend to want to distract, medicate, deny, shutdown, etc. Instead, the prophets model for us what it means to honestly face suffering and to bring our cares to God. Spend one minute in silence and then pray honestly to God what you feel about the suffering around you. Confess any resistance you have coming up and ask God for help.
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iBooks for iPad (2015 Edition) Sean Kells Genre: Computers Price: $5.99 Publish Date: December 3, 2014 This handy guide covers all of iBooks, Apple's chart-topping ebook reader tuned to work with your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac. If you're coming from the Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Noble Nook, you'll find the steps needed to make a smooth transition to iBooks. • Use just your fingers to page through books, read PDF files, interact with multimedia textbooks, create bookmarks, and highlight and annotate passages. • Use built-in search and navigation features to find words or phrases anywhere in a book and quickly jump to specific pages. • Share quotes from books via Mail, Messages, Twitter, or Facebook. • Adjust screen brightness for ambient light and change a book's text size, font, and layout to suit your eyesight and reading speed. • Stock and organize your library by buying books from the iBooks Store, downloading free (and DRM-free) books from the internet, and converting books to EPUB format. • Sync your library across all your iOS devices automatically. • Subscribe to magazines and newspapers or buy single issues. • Plenty of tips, tricks, and timesavers. • Fully cross-referenced, linked, and searchable. Contents 1. Getting Started with iBooks 2. Stocking Your Library 3. Organizing Your Library 4. Reading Books 5. Reading PDFs 6. Newsstand 7. Interactive Textbooks About the Author Sean Kells is a human-interface designer based in Seattle, Washington. When he's not pushing pixels, Sean paints foreboding seascapes, plays backgammon for blood, and takes his dog surfing. Sean has written guides to Numbers, Pages, Keynote, and iBooks.
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iBooks for iPad (2015 Edition) Sean Kells Genre: Computers Price: $5.99 Publish Date: December 3, 2014 This handy guide covers all of iBooks, Apple's chart-topping ebook reader tuned to work with your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac. If you're coming from the Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Noble Nook, you'll find the steps needed to make a smooth transition to iBooks. • Use just your fingers to page through books, read PDF files, interact with multimedia textbooks, create bookmarks, and highlight and annotate passages. • Use built-in search and navigation features to find words or phrases anywhere in a book and quickly jump to specific pages. • Share quotes from books via Mail, Messages, Twitter, or Facebook. • Adjust screen brightness for ambient light and change a book's text size, font, and layout to suit your eyesight and reading speed. • Stock and organize your library by buying books from the iBooks Store, downloading free (and DRM-free) books from the internet, and converting books to EPUB format. • Sync your library across all your iOS devices automatically. • Subscribe to magazines and newspapers or buy single issues. • Plenty of tips, tricks, and timesavers. • Fully cross-referenced, linked, and searchable. Contents 1. Getting Started with iBooks 2. Stocking Your Library 3. Organizing Your Library 4. Reading Books 5. Reading PDFs 6. Newsstand 7. Interactive Textbooks About the Author Sean Kells is a human-interface designer based in Seattle, Washington. When he's not pushing pixels, Sean paints foreboding seascapes, plays backgammon for blood, and takes his dog surfing. Sean has written guides to Numbers, Pages, Keynote, and iBooks.
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iBooks for iPad (2015 Edition) Sean Kells Genre: Computers Price: $5.99 Publish Date: December 3, 2014 This handy guide covers all of iBooks, Apple's chart-topping ebook reader tuned to work with your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac. If you're coming from the Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Noble Nook, you'll find the steps needed to make a smooth transition to iBooks. • Use just your fingers to page through books, read PDF files, interact with multimedia textbooks, create bookmarks, and highlight and annotate passages. • Use built-in search and navigation features to find words or phrases anywhere in a book and quickly jump to specific pages. • Share quotes from books via Mail, Messages, Twitter, or Facebook. • Adjust screen brightness for ambient light and change a book's text size, font, and layout to suit your eyesight and reading speed. • Stock and organize your library by buying books from the iBooks Store, downloading free (and DRM-free) books from the internet, and converting books to EPUB format. • Sync your library across all your iOS devices automatically. • Subscribe to magazines and newspapers or buy single issues. • Plenty of tips, tricks, and timesavers. • Fully cross-referenced, linked, and searchable. Contents 1. Getting Started with iBooks 2. Stocking Your Library 3. Organizing Your Library 4. Reading Books 5. Reading PDFs 6. Newsstand 7. Interactive Textbooks About the Author Sean Kells is a human-interface designer based in Seattle, Washington. When he's not pushing pixels, Sean paints foreboding seascapes, plays backgammon for blood, and takes his dog surfing. Sean has written guides to Numbers, Pages, Keynote, and iBooks.
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iBooks for iPad (2015 Edition) Sean Kells Genre: Computers Price: $5.99 Publish Date: December 3, 2014 This handy guide covers all of iBooks, Apple's chart-topping ebook reader tuned to work with your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac. If you're coming from the Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Noble Nook, you'll find the steps needed to make a smooth transition to iBooks. • Use just your fingers to page through books, read PDF files, interact with multimedia textbooks, create bookmarks, and highlight and annotate passages. • Use built-in search and navigation features to find words or phrases anywhere in a book and quickly jump to specific pages. • Share quotes from books via Mail, Messages, Twitter, or Facebook. • Adjust screen brightness for ambient light and change a book's text size, font, and layout to suit your eyesight and reading speed. • Stock and organize your library by buying books from the iBooks Store, downloading free (and DRM-free) books from the internet, and converting books to EPUB format. • Sync your library across all your iOS devices automatically. • Subscribe to magazines and newspapers or buy single issues. • Plenty of tips, tricks, and timesavers. • Fully cross-referenced, linked, and searchable. Contents 1. Getting Started with iBooks 2. Stocking Your Library 3. Organizing Your Library 4. Reading Books 5. Reading PDFs 6. Newsstand 7. Interactive Textbooks About the Author Sean Kells is a human-interface designer based in Seattle, Washington. When he's not pushing pixels, Sean paints foreboding seascapes, plays backgammon for blood, and takes his dog surfing. Sean has written guides to Numbers, Pages, Keynote, and iBooks.
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iBooks for iPad (2015 Edition) Sean Kells Genre: Computers Price: $5.99 Publish Date: December 3, 2014 This handy guide covers all of iBooks, Apple's chart-topping ebook reader tuned to work with your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac. If you're coming from the Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Noble Nook, you'll find the steps needed to make a smooth transition to iBooks. • Use just your fingers to page through books, read PDF files, interact with multimedia textbooks, create bookmarks, and highlight and annotate passages. • Use built-in search and navigation features to find words or phrases anywhere in a book and quickly jump to specific pages. • Share quotes from books via Mail, Messages, Twitter, or Facebook. • Adjust screen brightness for ambient light and change a book's text size, font, and layout to suit your eyesight and reading speed. • Stock and organize your library by buying books from the iBooks Store, downloading free (and DRM-free) books from the internet, and converting books to EPUB format. • Sync your library across all your iOS devices automatically. • Subscribe to magazines and newspapers or buy single issues. • Plenty of tips, tricks, and timesavers. • Fully cross-referenced, linked, and searchable. Contents 1. Getting Started with iBooks 2. Stocking Your Library 3. Organizing Your Library 4. Reading Books 5. Reading PDFs 6. Newsstand 7. Interactive Textbooks About the Author Sean Kells is a human-interface designer based in Seattle, Washington. When he's not pushing pixels, Sean paints foreboding seascapes, plays backgammon for blood, and takes his dog surfing. Sean has written guides to Numbers, Pages, Keynote, and iBooks.
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iBooks for iPad (2015 Edition) Sean Kells Genre: Computers Price: $5.99 Publish Date: December 3, 2014 This handy guide covers all of iBooks, Apple's chart-topping ebook reader tuned to work with your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac. If you're coming from the Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Noble Nook, you'll find the steps needed to make a smooth transition to iBooks. • Use just your fingers to page through books, read PDF files, interact with multimedia textbooks, create bookmarks, and highlight and annotate passages. • Use built-in search and navigation features to find words or phrases anywhere in a book and quickly jump to specific pages. • Share quotes from books via Mail, Messages, Twitter, or Facebook. • Adjust screen brightness for ambient light and change a book's text size, font, and layout to suit your eyesight and reading speed. • Stock and organize your library by buying books from the iBooks Store, downloading free (and DRM-free) books from the internet, and converting books to EPUB format. • Sync your library across all your iOS devices automatically. • Subscribe to magazines and newspapers or buy single issues. • Plenty of tips, tricks, and timesavers. • Fully cross-referenced, linked, and searchable. Contents 1. Getting Started with iBooks 2. Stocking Your Library 3. Organizing Your Library 4. Reading Books 5. Reading PDFs 6. Newsstand 7. Interactive Textbooks About the Author Sean Kells is a human-interface designer based in Seattle, Washington. When he's not pushing pixels, Sean paints foreboding seascapes, plays backgammon for blood, and takes his dog surfing. Sean has written guides to Numbers, Pages, Keynote, and iBooks.
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iBooks for iPad (2015 Edition) Sean Kells Genre: Computers Price: $5.99 Publish Date: December 3, 2014 This handy guide covers all of iBooks, Apple's chart-topping ebook reader tuned to work with your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac. If you're coming from the Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Noble Nook, you'll find the steps needed to make a smooth transition to iBooks. • Use just your fingers to page through books, read PDF files, interact with multimedia textbooks, create bookmarks, and highlight and annotate passages. • Use built-in search and navigation features to find words or phrases anywhere in a book and quickly jump to specific pages. • Share quotes from books via Mail, Messages, Twitter, or Facebook. • Adjust screen brightness for ambient light and change a book's text size, font, and layout to suit your eyesight and reading speed. • Stock and organize your library by buying books from the iBooks Store, downloading free (and DRM-free) books from the internet, and converting books to EPUB format. • Sync your library across all your iOS devices automatically. • Subscribe to magazines and newspapers or buy single issues. • Plenty of tips, tricks, and timesavers. • Fully cross-referenced, linked, and searchable. Contents 1. Getting Started with iBooks 2. Stocking Your Library 3. Organizing Your Library 4. Reading Books 5. Reading PDFs 6. Newsstand 7. Interactive Textbooks About the Author Sean Kells is a human-interface designer based in Seattle, Washington. When he's not pushing pixels, Sean paints foreboding seascapes, plays backgammon for blood, and takes his dog surfing. Sean has written guides to Numbers, Pages, Keynote, and iBooks.
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iBooks for iPad (2015 Edition) Sean Kells Genre: Computers Price: $5.99 Publish Date: December 3, 2014 This handy guide covers all of iBooks, Apple's chart-topping ebook reader tuned to work with your iPad, iPhone, iPod touch, and Mac. If you're coming from the Amazon Kindle or Barnes & Noble Nook, you'll find the steps needed to make a smooth transition to iBooks. • Use just your fingers to page through books, read PDF files, interact with multimedia textbooks, create bookmarks, and highlight and annotate passages. • Use built-in search and navigation features to find words or phrases anywhere in a book and quickly jump to specific pages. • Share quotes from books via Mail, Messages, Twitter, or Facebook. • Adjust screen brightness for ambient light and change a book's text size, font, and layout to suit your eyesight and reading speed. • Stock and organize your library by buying books from the iBooks Store, downloading free (and DRM-free) books from the internet, and converting books to EPUB format. • Sync your library across all your iOS devices automatically. • Subscribe to magazines and newspapers or buy single issues. • Plenty of tips, tricks, and timesavers. • Fully cross-referenced, linked, and searchable. Contents 1. Getting Started with iBooks 2. Stocking Your Library 3. Organizing Your Library 4. Reading Books 5. Reading PDFs 6. Newsstand 7. Interactive Textbooks About the Author Sean Kells is a human-interface designer based in Seattle, Washington. When he's not pushing pixels, Sean paints foreboding seascapes, plays backgammon for blood, and takes his dog surfing. Sean has written guides to Numbers, Pages, Keynote, and iBooks.
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