In the Bible, one of Jesus’ friends, Peter, writes: ‘Cast all your worries onto God because he cares for you.’ (1 Peter 5:7)
- What are you worried about right now? Is there something that’s been making you feel stressed?
- Put your hands in the bowl of aqua beads and gently take two handfuls of them. As the aqua beads run through your fingers, imagine the worry and stress slipping away too…
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Ktieb, ħabib u gwida għaż-żgħażagħ li qed ifittxu it-Triq tal-Ħajja. Ġabra ta’ stejjer, esperjenzi, ħsibijiet miġbura minn ħargiet imgħoddija ta’ fuljett għaż-żgħażagħ maħruġ mill-Ġiżwiti. Illum ukoll għandna żgħażagħ li qed ifittxu ftit sens fid-dinja tal-lum, bl-isfidi kollha tagħha. Nifs frisk ta’ ħajja li ma tinxifx u li jmiss kull qalb żagħżugħa li qed tfittex it-Triq tal-Ħajja.
Intervista ma’ Fr Paul Chetcuti sj dwar kif u għala fforma It-Triq Għaż-Żgħażagħ Rigal Sabiħ għal Żgħażagħ minn 12-il sena ‘l fuq… Read more »
Instructions
Physical exercise keeps your body and mind healthy by burning energy, lowering stress and making you self-confident. It also helps you to pray better because it improves your breathing, concentration, self-control and determination.
- Warm-up: Walk, jog on the spot, do shoulder rows and knee lifts slowly. Breathe deeply while you thank God for being alive and healthy.
- Main workout: Choose your favourite sports equipment or do push-ups, lunges, squats and other exercises…
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Sometimes we can feel weighed down by our worries. Some worries just slow us down, but others can stop us from enjoying the good things in our lives.
- Place the heavy objects that represent your worries in the rucksack or bag.
- Lift the bag or place the rucksack on your back.
- As you do so, think about the problems, situations or worries which you have now…
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Difficult experiences often upset us very badly. Resilience is the strength that helps us to bounce back by thinking hopefully about life, learning from our mistakes and finding help and support. Difficult experiences do not break us but shape us to become stronger and braver.
- Think about an experience which has knocked you down. If you want to, you can speak to an adult who can help you with this…
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The way we think affects how we feel and behave. Bad thoughts make us complain and feel helpless or sad. Positive thoughts empower us to feel in control of ourselves and our life so that we can deal with difficult situations with more hope and courage.
- Take a blank sheet of paper and draw two columns. In the first column think of those situations which made you feel sad and hopeless…
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Lots of things may make us sad, and you know what, it is okay to feel that way. Jesus felt sad too. God understands our sadness. The Bible says, ‘You keep track of all my sorrows. You have collected all my tears in your bottle.’ – Psalm 56:8
- Take an aqua bead and think about something that makes you sad.
- Drop the aqua bead representing your ‘tear’ into the big bottle…
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Żomm Ċagħka f’Idejk u Itlaqha
“Min hu barra barra u min hu ġewwa ġewwa!” qal il-papà hekk kif Ryan u ħutu marru jiġru jistaħbew wara s-siġar u l-ħitan tas-sejjieħ. U l-papà beda jfittex lit-tfal tiegħu wieħed wieħed u waħda waħda. Kull darba li jsib lil xi ħadd fil-moħba tiegħu jgħajjat l-isem biex juri li jkun rah jew raha u jgħajjat il-kelma ‘Rajtek’…
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