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ISLAND 6

Island of Abundance NAVIGATIONAL GUIDEBOOK

Island of Abundance Overview................................................................

Preparing for the Island of Abundance.....................................................

Abua..........................................................................................................

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Cobamu.....................................................................................................

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Faiho..........................................................................................................

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Island of Abundance Table of Contents

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Island of Abundance Overview

Preparing for the Island of Abundance

Read: COMING SOON!

Tale of Hope: Island of Abundance

Abua ( uh-BOO-uh )

Abundance

Read: Abua Section

Song: Abua the Whale

Grati ( GRA-tee )

Gratitude

Read: Grati Section

Song: Grati the Dog

Ensuot (EN-soo-aht)

Encourage and Support Others

Read: Ensuot Section

Song: Ensuot the Otter

Cobamu

(koh-BAM-oo)

Comes Back Multiplied

Read: Cobamu Section

Song: Cobamu the Sea Turtle

Faiho

(FAY-hoh) Faith and Hope

Read: Faiho Section

Song: Faiho the Dove

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Preparing for the Island of Abundance

ENLIGH: PREPARE YOURSELF

• Island 6 –Island of Abundance: Requiring Strength of Character

- As I maintain all of the steps on this journey, I accomplish the endeavors given to

me and begin to fully engage in my unique mission and purpose. I achieve the

highest level of peace, happiness, and joy by sharing through the abundance of

gifts, talents, and resources I possess. This requires strength of character, as I

seek to be always engaged in something higher than myself. In this way I am free

to be Who I Really Am.

• Read through Warriors, Not Worriers and write or discuss with others your opinion of

the message.

Warriors, Not Worriers

By Roger Anthony

Life is wonderfully designed for us to learn continually from all experiences. It just so happens

that our greatest growth comes through our greatest challenges!

Each of us has a divine mission and purpose that can only be unveiled by experiencing trials,

extracting the good from them, and moving onto the next moment of our lives with gratitude for

the lessons learned.

Each experience unveils a little more about who we really are, what we are capable of, where we

are meant to be going, and how we are going to get there.

In light of this understanding, problems aren’t problems; they are opportunities in disguise. They

are challenges designed to build within us the attributes that make up strength of character and

lead us to discover and fulfill our divine mission and purpose.

When confronted with a problem, a warrior sees it for what it really is: A challenge. A warrior

remains relaxed, overcomes the challenge, learns from it, and goes forward. Be a greater

Warrior and less of a Worrier!

• As you progress on the Island of Abundance think about this message and how it relates

to the things you will learn.

READ THE TALE OF HOPE: COMING SOON!

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Teaching Tips

When teaching, keep in mind that as humans:

We all enjoy humor.

We all want love.

We all love stories.

We all like learning with multiple senses.

The more abundantly you incorporate these tools into your teaching, the better it will be

enjoyed, received and remembered.

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Abua (uh-BOO-uh)

Abundance

Enligh: Prepare Yourself

• Abundance requires strength of character.

• Sharing through abundance unveils love.

• 1828 definition of abundant: Plentiful; in great quantity; fully sufficient; as an abundant

supply. In scripture, abounding; having in great quantity; overflowing with.

• Listen to Abua the Whale . Record any thoughts or impressions.

• Read through the humpback whale facts . After reading the animal facts and

listening to the song, how could you liken the whale to abundance?

• Study the word abundance in your core books. What does it mean to have an abundant

attitude? Look at How to Use Abua and find stories that exemplify each bullet point.

READ THE TALE OF HOPE: Read together the Abua section in The Tale of Hope: Island of

Abundance. COMING SOON!

Abua (The Whale)

Seeing through the eyes of an abundant attitude eliminates a scarcity mentality and

opens up unlimited opportunities.

HOW TO USE ABUA RESULTS FROM APPLYING ABUA

• Share your gifts, talents, and resources in the

spirit of abundance.

• Regularly express gratitude, knowing it is the

doorway to abundance and love.

• Reach out to support and encourage others.

• Nourish faith and hope by being an abundant

thinker.

• Increases the power of love

• Inspires others to be abundant in their thinking

and actions

• Increases Self-Awareness and Positive Attitude

(SAPA)

• Opens up abundant opportunities for continual

improvement

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LISTEN TO THE SONG: Abua the Whale.

EXPLORE THE HUMPBACK WHALE:

1. Humpback whales travel over the whole ocean from Antarctica in the south to the Arctic

in the north. At 50 feet (16 meters) long, and weighing 40 tons, they are one of the

largest animals on Earth, a little bigger than a full-size school bus.

2. Despite their massive size, humpback whales can propel themselves above the water and

splash back down (breaching). Some scientists think they do this to splash off parasites,

but they may do it just to have fun.

3. Humpback whales migrate farther than any other animal in the world. Some travel 16,000

miles each year.

4. Male humpback whales are known for their majestic song, which are a sequence of

moans, cries, and howls. The low frequency sounds from the whale can travel more than

10,000 miles in water without losing energy. They can sing the same song for hours and

even harmonize with other whales.

5. This enormous sea animal can eat 4,400-5,500 pounds (2000-2500 kg) of fish during the

feeding season.

6. What else can you learn about humpback whales?

PONDER:

1. How can you liken the humpback whale to having an abundant attitude?

2. Despite the enormous amounts of fish the humpback whale eats, there is enough fish for

other animals to eat. What have you been abundantly blessed with that you can share with

others?

3. A male humpback’s song can travel many miles and the whale can sing these songs for

hours. They can even harmonize with each other. What does it mean to share your gifts,

talents, and resources in the spirit of abundance? Can you think of an example?

4. Humpback whales travel farther than any other animal. How does having an abundant

attitude help you ‘travel’ farther in life and become who you really are?

Teaching Tip

What are your students passionate about? What are your passions? Passions and interests

are contagious!! Use them to teach the principles of WIRA.

For example, if you have students interested in art, you can create art with any of the

animal characters. Build a sculpture of Respa; make a kite for Lasef; and draw Seldi

heading away from the well and toward his master. If you have students that love to dance,

have them make up a dance for each animal. For a sports lover, have them play a sport in

the character of an animal or find sports stories that exemplify the principle you are

teaching. Our passions are a great vehicle for learning.


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Abua Stories

The Warrior: Lou Gehrig

by Beth Southwick

When it comes to big stars on the baseball field, Lou Gehrig is among the brightest. In a career

that spanned 17 seasons, from 1923-1939, he played first base for the New York Yankees where

he earned the nickname, “The Iron Horse,” for his amazing abilities.

Lou’s track record is impressive! He holds the record for hitting 23 grand slams in his career.

And his other record, playing 2,130 consecutive games, held for over 50 years. He was really

good. And really fast…until the day he started to slow down.

In 1938, Lou recalled, “I tired mid-season. I don't know why, but I just couldn't get going again."

He found he wasn’t able to run, catch, or bat with power like he used to. When his abilities

continued to decline, he decided to bench himself “for the good of the team,” bringing his

consecutive game streak to an end.

After extensive testing, Lou Gehrig was finally diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral

sclerosis (ALS). Today, it is commonly known as “Lou Gehrig’s disease.” A-myo-trophic

literally means “no muscle nourishment.” Lateral refers to the spinal region of the body.

Sclerosis means “hardening.” ALS attacks the motor neurons located in the brain, brainstem, and

spinal cord that are responsible for controlling the muscles in our body that are voluntary, such

as those that help us to swallow, speak, walk, and lift. These neurons (or nerve cells) gradually

degenerate or die and stop sending messages to muscles. The muscles stop working properly and

grow “hard” from “no muscle nourishment.”

ALS would take Lou’s life two years later.

Following the diagnosis, Lou announced his retirement from baseball. Wanting to show their

love and admiration for their revered teammate and baseball hero, the Yankees held a special

tribute to Lou Gehrig in Yankee Stadium on July 4, 1939. During that ceremony, Lou gave a

speech that shows his incredible ability to see the good; despite the opposition engulfing him.

“Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I

consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for seventeen

years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.

“When you look around, wouldn't you consider it a privilege to associate yourself with such fine

looking men as are standing in uniform in this ballpark today? Sure, I'm lucky.

“When everybody down to the groundskeepers and those boys in white coats remember you with

trophies—that's something. When you have a wonderful mother-in-law who takes sides with you

in squabbles with her own daughter—that's something. When you have a father and a mother

who work all their lives so that you can have an education and build your body—it's a blessing.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amyotrophic_lateral_sclerosis

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When you have a wife who has been a tower of strength and shown more courage than you

dreamed existed—that's the finest I know.

“So I close in saying that I might have been given a bad break, but I've got an awful lot to live

for. Thank you.”

Despite his grim prognosis, Lou Gehrig smiled. He took one step at a time, until he could walk

no more. Still, he smiled. He inspired others to face their uncertain futures with flexibility. He

wrote, "Don't think I am depressed or pessimistic about my condition at present. I intend to hold

on as long as possible and then if the inevitable comes, I will accept it philosophically and hope

for the best. That's all we can do.” 1

After his death, Lou’s friend, Bob Considine, wrote a tribute to him entitled, The Iron Horse,

wherein he recalls the following:

“Just before he died on June 2, 1941, Lou called me from his office. Mayor La Guardia had

appointed him to the New York City Parole Board to work with and encourage youthful

lawbreakers. Gehrig threw himself into the work with everything he had, or had left. He also

kept up a lively interest in research into the disease that had driven him out of baseball.

It was a note about the latter that prompted his phone call.

‘I’ve got some good news for you,’ he said. ‘Looks like the boys in the labs might have come up

with a real breakthrough. They’ve got some new serum that they’ve tried on ten of us who have

the same problem. And, you know something? It seems to be working on nine out of the ten.

How about that?’ He was elated.

I tried not to ask the question, but it came out anyway, after a bit.

‘How about you, Lou?’

Lou said, ‘Well, it didn’t work on me. But how about that for an average?—nine out of ten! Isn’t

that great?’

I said yes, it was great.

So was he.”2

Lou Gehrig with Babe Ruth following his retirement speech, July 4, 1939.

1 Eig, Jonathan (2005). Luckiest Man: The Life and Death of Lou Gehrig, pp. 3–4.

2Considine, Bob, “The Iron Horse,” The Book of Virtues by William J Bennett, p 500.


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Discussion Questions

1. How did Lou Gehrig see his life as abundant and rich, even though he had to give up

what he loved best to do?

2. How was Lou able to be happy for the nine other men, when he didn’t respond well to the

serum treatment? How did the principle of Abua make a difference in his life?


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The Widow and Her Son

A widow had two sons, Yao-Pao, a lad yet in school, and Yao-Moi who tilled the soil.

Yao-Moi, the elder, was a good man; he had worked hard for thirty years, but he had not

gained riches. He sent Yao-Pao to school and served his mother well.

One year there were great rains. The grain all died in the ground and the people of that

country had nothing to eat. Yao-Moi had debts which he could not pay, and when his harvest

failed he became poorer than ever before.

Then there came a great famine and twenty thousand people died in that land. Yao-Moi

killed his oxen to keep his mother and brother from starving. Last of all he killed the horses and

mules, for it was yet six months before the time of harvest. Each time when he would kill for

meat, the neighbors would come and beg food, and because he was sorry for them, he could not

refuse.

One widow came many times until she was ashamed to beg longer from the little that he

had. Finally she brought a girl child to him and said, “We are again starving. I will give you this

girl for some meat. She is strong and can serve your mother.” But Yao-Moi said, “No, I will give

you the meat. I cannot take your girl from you.”

So he gave her meat once more, and she took the meat home to her son. But when it was

gone and they were weak and fierce again with the death hunger, the widow said, “We shall all

die, unless one dies to save the others. My son can no longer walk. I will kill the girl child and

save his life. He can then eat.” Her son said, “No, do not kill the girl, trade her to Yao-Moi for

meat.” And the mother said, “Yao-Moi will soon starve, too, and then he will kill her. It is better

that I do it;” and she took the big sharp knife to make it sharper.

She laid the girl child down on a bench and prepared to kill; but Yao-Moi passed by the

house just then, and hearing the moans and screams he stopped to ask the reason. And the widow

said, “We are starving. We will have a funeral to-day. We will now kill each other that the last

one may live until the time of the harvest.” But Yao-Moi said, “Oh, no, do not kill the girl, I will

take her home with me, and you can have meat in exchange for her;” and he took her to his home

and gave the widow many pounds of meat for herself and her dying son.

Four months passed by. Yao-Moi had nothing in his own house to eat, and they were all

starving – Yao-Moi, his mother, his little brother, and the girl.

When the death hunger came, and the mother saw that her sons must die, she said, “I will

kill the girl.” But Yao-Moi said, “No, I think we shall not die. Let us sleep to-night and see. I

think something surely will come. Better kill me than the girl child.”

So they went to bed that night. It was winter and the house was cold and dark. There was

no wood, no light, no food; and they were starving.


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Now, as the house grew more cold and dark, there came to them the quiet of a great

despair and they all slept.

And Yao-Moi had a dream, and he saw an old man in flowing white garments, with a belt

of gold around his waist. His hair was long and white, and his face was gentle and kind. And he

called, “Yao-Moi! Yao-Moi! Yao-Moi! Hearken unto my words. Do you know how many

people are dead in this land?”

Yao-Moi answered, “No, but I do know they are many, for only three among a hundred

of all that were are now left.”

And the old man said, “In every house but yours some have died, but those of your

household are all alive: you have also saved the girl child. I know you are a good man. You have

plowed the soil for thirty years, and have never complained about the heaven or the earth. The

thunder and water come, the winds blow and the earth quakes, and still you are patient and kind.

You are good to your mother. You support your brother, send him to school, and are as a father

to him. You have a kind heart for your neighbors’ troubles. You live a good life and, because of

this, you shall not starve. To-morrow morning you must arise early and go to the East Mountain

by the wilderness. There you will find many meats and nuts and seeds. Bring them home to your

family. I am a spirit sent from the Greatest One to earth.”

After saying these things the man went out and Yao-Moi arose with great joy and told his

family. Then he went to the East Mountain by the wilderness, where he found corn and peanuts

and the meat of two hundred foxes already prepared to eat.

And he was very glad, and brought home much food and saved many lives.

Ee-Sze (Meaning): If people do good they will have reward.

Taken from Chinese Fables and Folk Stories by Mary Hayes Davis and Chow-Leung (1908), pp.

22-26.

Librariesofhope.com


1. How did the principle of Abua help Yao-Moi and his family?

2. Can you identify people you know who have given to others, even when they were in

need? How were they blessed by it? How does their example inspire you to do the same?


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Additional Books/Stories

• The Star Money by Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, (Ages: 3 and up). This short

story can be found on http://commons.wikimedia.org. A poor, young girl, who only has a

bit of bread and the clothes on her back, ventures out in the world and encounters several

people who are in need. Without hesitation, she gives all that she has. In the end, the

heavens shower gold upon her and, because of her abundant attitude, she lives in wealth

the rest of her days.


https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Jacob_Grimm

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Wilhelm_Grimm

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Abua Movies

The Ultimate Gift Fox Faith 2006. Jason Stevens is about to inherent a large fortune from his

grandfather, Red Stevens, but first he must complete 12 assignments within a year. During this

time, he learns valuable lesson that shape his character and help him become the man his

grandfather was hoping him to grow up to be.

1. Jason believed that abundance was money. What other types of abundance did he learn

about?

2. Is abundance always good? In what ways was financial abundance a problem for Jason?

How was it a blessing?

3. What did Redd Stevens understand about abundance?

4. How did the gifts change Jason?

5. Which of the gifts in the movie do you have?

6. What was the ultimate gift?

The Giver Asis Productions and Walden Media 2014. Based on the book by Lois Lowry. Jonas

lives in a sterile, colorless, equalitarian community created to isolate its people from memories of

life before 'The Ruin'. Everything in the community is perfectly controlled, including their

emotions and careers. Each graduating youth is assigned a position and Jonas is given the most

rare of the assignments. He is to be the Receiver of Memories. He and his mentor are the only

people in the society that are given memories of the Earth's past. As he experiences love, fear,

and family for the first time, he desires to share the emotional abundance with those he cares for.

When he discovers that a baby he loves as a brother is going to be killed, he must choose safety

and security or love with its accompanying risks. Whatever he chooses will ultimately affect

everyone in his society.

1. What things did Jonas' community not have that you are blessed to enjoy?

2. What abundance comes from having memories? Family love? Seeing color?

3. Did you feel gratitude for anything that you typically take for granted? How is this

abundance?

4. When Jonas learned what the others were missing, how did he show his abundance

mindset?

5. Is it possible to have an abundance of only good things? How do hard things help us

appreciate our abundance?


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Abua Lesson Ideas


1. How can having an abundant attitude propel you above your circumstances to having

more Peace, Happiness, and Joy (PHJ)?

2. Think of a time that you shared something you had with someone else. How did this

experience help you to feel more abundant?

Song Extensions

• COLOR: Invite your class to color the Abua coloring page as they listen to the song.

• DISCUSSION: WHAT DOES HAVING ABUNDANT POSSIBILITIES

MEAN? Listen to Abua the Whale. Encourage your students to listen for words and

phrases that describe where we can look for abundance. You could have them raise their

hand like a humpback coming up for air when they hear these words. If you desire,

discuss these phrases and share examples of each of them.

• ACTIVITY: Hand out 3x5 cards, and ask your students to list talents, gifts, and

opportunities available to them and their family or class. Collect them all and throw them

into the air. What does this activity symbolize? Discuss how you can share the talents

and gifts with others. What talents and opportunities have others shared with you?

• WORD PUZZLES: Do the word search, crossword, or coloring page while you listen to

songs you have already learned.

• DISCUSSION: What phrases stand out in Auba’s song? What do they mean to you?

Additional Activities

• VIDEO: Find a video clip about the humpback whale to watch and discuss.

• ACTIVITY: In whale talk, have each student take turns sharing how they see

abundance around them. (Hint: Talk like Dory in Finding Nemo.)

• ROLE PLAY: Think of a story about abundance from your core books to act out in a

simple skit. Invite your class to create a script based on the story. Add costumes,

music, and props as desired.

• ART: Find a large space like a driveway and measure the length of a humpback whale

with sidewalk chalk. Draw a whale the size of your measurement.


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• QUOTE ACTIVITY AND ART PROJECT: Choose a quote and invite your students

to create a poster to illustrate it. Display your poster. Spend time memorizing the

quote. Make the quote into a little song or chant!

• OBJECT LESSON: Fill a cup until it is over the brim but not spilling over and invite

your students to come and see it, or divide the class into smaller groups and have them

fill a cup until it is over the brim. Like this cup, that can hold more water than it

appears, we have more possibilities within us to share than we can see. Choose

someone to share your talents with. Encourage your students to go visit someone in your

neighborhood, write someone a card or letter, smile and share their happiness.

• PROJECT: LIVING A LIFE OF ABUNDANCE. Find a biography about someone you

admire. Do you see the principles taught in Who I Really Am weaved through out their

personal journey? Did they have an abundant attitude? What was their personal mission

and how did it affect humanity?


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Grati (GRA-tee)

Have Gratitude


• 1828 definition of gratitude: An emotion of the heart, excited by a favor or benefit

received; a sentiment of kindness or good will towards a benefactor; thankfulness.

Gratitude is an agreeable emotion, consisting in or accompanied with good will to a

benefactor, and a disposition to make a suitable return of benefits or services, or when no

return can be made, with a desire to see the benefactor prosperous and happy. Gratitude is

a virtue of the highest excellence, as it implies a feeling and generous heart, and a proper

sense of duty.

• Listen to Grati the Dog . Record any thoughts or impressions.

• Read through the Labrador facts . After reading the animal facts and listening to the

song, how could you liken the Labrador to having gratitude?

• Take some Enligh time and write in colored pen or pencil in a journal the things you are

grateful for in your life. Without hesitation, record as many thoughts as possible when

they flow into your mind. Study the word gratitude in your core books.

READ THE TALE OF HOPE: Read together the Grati section in The Tale of Hope: Island of


Grati (The Dog)

Gratitude is the doorway to love and a life of well-being! We are better able to

withstand all of life’s challenges with a positive attitude of gratitude.

HOW TO USE GRATI RESULTS FROM APPLYING GRATI

• Be grateful for life by counting my many

blessings.

• Know that with a positive attitude, all things

work together for my good.

• Be grateful for the trials and not just the so-

called ‘good things’; for trials are my greatest

teachers.

• Engenders Peace, Happiness, and Joy (PHJ),

culminating with inner contentment

• Improves clarity and creativity

• Increases personal energy and effectiveness

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LISTEN TO THE SONG: Listen to Grati the Dog.

EXPLORE THE LABRADOR:

1. Labrador retrievers are among the most popular dogs in the world. They were named

after the Labrador Sea, where they were bred to help fishermen bring in nets and loose

fish from the water. They are a smaller version of the Newfoundland dog.

2. A layered, slightly oiled coat keep these athletic dogs warm in cold water. Labradors

love water and are excellent swimmers because of their webbed feet.

They have an otter-like tail that acts like a rudder in the water.

3. Labradors are very athletic dogs that can hit speeds of 12 miles per hour in 3 seconds.

They are bred to have a ‘soft mouth.’ A well-trained lab can carry an egg in its mouth

without breaking it.

4. Labs are energetic dogs who love life, have a great ability to learn, and are eager to

please their owners. Labradors are expressive dogs; and it is probable that they express

gratitude by licking the hands which pet them.

5. What else can you learn about Labradors?

PONDER:

1. Help young children understand what gratitude means. How can you liken the Labrador

to gratitude?

2. Labs are expressive dogs and it is probable that they express gratitude by licking the

hands which pet them. How can you express gratitude?

3. Labradors are bred to have a ‘soft mouth.’ How can you relate this to gratitude?

4. Labs are very energetic dogs and can reach speeds of 12 miles per hour in 3 seconds.

How does being grateful affect you physically?

Teaching Tip

“Gratitude is the sign of noble souls.” ~Aesop

Expressing gratitude to your students when they join in the lesson with excitement, answer

a question thoughtfully, or share their feelings, is one of the best ways to ensure they will

continue to participate. Be rich with your praise and you will not only have a better

experience, but will be exemplifying the Grati principle each day!


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Grati Stories

POLLYANNA: The Glad Game

by Eleanor H. Porter

In this excerpt, Pollyanna had been playing outside and lost track of time, missing her supper.

Nancy had gone to search for her and they are now walking home together.

"Poor little lamb! And you must be hungry, too. I--I'm afraid you'll have ter have bread

and milk in the kitchen with me. Yer aunt didn't like it--because you didn't come down ter

supper, ye know."

"But I couldn't. I was up here."

"Yes; but--she didn't know that, you see!" observed Nancy, dryly, stifling a chuckle.

"I'm sorry about the bread and milk; I am, I am."

"Oh, I'm not. I'm glad."

"Glad! Why?"

"Why, I like bread and milk, and I'd like to eat with you. I don't see any trouble about

being glad about that."

"You don't seem ter see any trouble bein' glad about everythin'," retorted Nancy,

choking a little over her remembrance of Pollyanna's brave attempts to like the bare little attic

room.

Pollyanna laughed softly. "Well, that's the game, you know, anyway."

"The--GAME?"

"Yes; the 'just being glad' game."

"Whatever in the world are you talkin' about?"

"Why, it's a game. Father told it to me, and it's lovely," rejoined Pollyanna. "We've

played it always, ever since I was a little, little girl. I told the Ladies' Aid, and they played it--

some of them."

"What is it? I ain't much on games, though."

Pollyanna laughed again, but she sighed, too; and in the gathering twilight her face

looked thin and wistful. "Why, we began it on some crutches that came in a missionary

barrel."


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"CRUTCHES!"

"Yes. You see I'd wanted a doll, and father had written them so; but when the barrel

came the lady wrote that there hadn't any dolls come in, but the little crutches had. So she sent

'em along as they might come in handy for some child, sometime. And that's when we began

it."

"Well, I must say I can't see any game about that, about that," declared Nancy, almost

irritably.

"Oh, yes; the game was to just find something about everything to be glad about--no

matter what 'twas," rejoined Pollyanna, earnestly. "And we began right then--on the crutches."

"Well, goodness me! I can't see anythin' ter be glad about--gettin' a pair of crutches

when you wanted a doll!"

Pollyanna clapped her hands. "There is--there is," she crowed. "But I couldn't see it,

either, Nancy, at first," she added, with quick honesty. "Father had to tell it to me."

"Well, then, suppose YOU tell ME," almost snapped Nancy.

"Goosey! Why, just be glad because you don't--NEED--'EM!" exulted Pollyanna,

triumphantly. "You see it's just as easy--when you know how!"

"Well, of all the queer doin's!" breathed Nancy, regarding Pollyanna with almost fearful

eyes.

"Oh, but it isn't queer--it's lovely," maintained Pollyanna enthusiastically. "And we've

played it ever since. And the harder 'tis, the more fun 'tis to get 'em out; only--only sometimes

it's almost too hard--like when your father goes to Heaven, and there isn't anybody but a

Ladies' Aid left."

"Yes, or when you're put in a snippy little room 'way at the top of the house with nothin'

in it," growled Nancy.

Pollyanna sighed. "That was a hard one, at first," she admitted, "’specially when I was

so kind of lonesome. I just didn't feel like playing the game, anyway, and I HAD been

wanting pretty things, so! Then I happened to think how I hated to see my freckles in the

looking-glass, and I saw that lovely picture out the window, too; so then I knew I'd found the

things to be glad about. You see, when you're hunting for the glad things, you sort of forget

the other kind--like the doll you wanted, you know."

"Humph!" choked Nancy, trying to swallow the lump in her throat.

"Most generally it doesn't take so long," sighed Pollyanna; "and lots of times now I just

think of them WITHOUT thinking, you know. I've got so used to playing it. It's a lovely

game. F-father and I used to like it so much," she faltered. "I suppose, though, it--it'll be a

little harder now, as long as I haven't anybody to play it with. Maybe Aunt Polly will play it,

though," she added, as an after-thought.


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"My stars and stockings!--HER!" breathed Nancy, behind her teeth. Then, aloud, she

said doggedly: "See here, Miss Pollyanna, I ain't sayin' that I'll play it very well, and I ain't

sayin' that I know how, anyway; but I'll play it with ye, after a fashion--I just will, I will!"

"Oh, Nancy!" exulted Pollyanna, giving her a rapturous hug. "That'll be splendid! Won't

we have fun?"

"Er--maybe," conceded Nancy, in open doubt. "But you mustn't count too much on me,

ye know. I never was no case fur games. but I'm a-goin' ter make a most awful old try on this

one. You're goin' ter have someone ter play it with, anyhow," she finished, as they entered the

kitchen together.

Pollyanna ate her bread and milk with good appetite; then, at Nancy's suggestion, she

went into the sitting room, where her aunt sat reading. Miss Polly looked up coldly.

"Have you had your supper, Pollyanna?"

"Yes, Aunt Polly."

"I'm very sorry, Pollyanna, to have been obliged so soon to send you into the kitchen to

eat bread and milk."

"But I was real glad you did it, Aunt Polly. I like bread and milk, and Nancy, too. You

mustn't feel bad about that one bit."

Aunt Polly sat suddenly a little more erect in her chair. "Pollyanna, it's quite time you

were in bed. You have had a hard day, and to-morrow we must plan your hours and go over

your clothing to see what it is necessary to get for you. Nancy will give you a candle. Be

careful how you handle it. Breakfast will be at half-past seven. See that you are down to that.

Good-night."

Quite as a matter of course, Pollyanna came straight to her aunt's side and gave her an

affectionate hug. "I've had such a beautiful time, so far," she sighed happily. “I know I'm

going to just love living with you but then, I knew I should before I came. Good-night," she

called cheerfully, as she ran from the room.

"Well, upon my soul!" ejaculated Miss Polly, half aloud. "What a most extraordinary

child!" Then she frowned. "She's 'glad' I punished her, and I 'mustn't feel bad one bit,' and

she's going to 'love to live' with me! Well, upon my soul!" ejaculated Miss Polly again, as she

took up her book.

Fifteen minutes later, in the attic room, a lonely little girl sobbed into the tightly-

clutched sheet: "I know, father-among-the-angels, I'm not playing the game one bit now--not

one bit; but I don't believe even you could find anything to be glad about sleeping all alone

'way off up here in the dark--like this. If only I was near Nancy or Aunt Polly, or even a

Ladies' Aider, it would be easier!"

Down-stairs in the kitchen, Nancy, hurrying with her belated work, jabbed her dish-mop

into the milk pitcher, and muttered Jerkily: "If playin' a silly-fool game--about bein' glad


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you've got crutches when you want dolls--is got ter be—my way--o' bein' that rock o' refuge--

why, I'm a-goin' ter play it--I am, I am!"


1. How does the Glad Game follow the principles of Grati?

2. Does happiness depend on how grateful we are? Why or why not?

3. Pollyanna still felt sorrow, even though she played the game all the time. Can you be

grateful and still feel sadness? Is it okay to feel sad?

Patience and Cheerfulness

Arthur Stanley, Dean of Westminster Abbey, loved to preach to children, and they loved

to listen to the sermons he prepared especially for them, because he spoke to them of the real

everyday problems of their young lives, and helped them to see the proper use to be made alike

of happiness and misfortune.

The following is from a sermon he once gave on sick children. After explaining that

“Illness may make a child fretful and selfish . . . but it may also teach a child to be patient and

considerate,” he told a story of a sickly boy named Charles. He then went on as follows: -

“This is from a story - an imaginary tale of what might happen. Now I will tell you of

what has happened. It is a contrast between two boys in Scotland, to which my attention was

called some time ago by an excellent Scottish judge, now dead. They were boys who both

became famous in after life. One was Lord Bryon, the English poet, and the other was Sir Walter

Scott, the Scotch poet and story-writer.

“Well, both these boys had the same kind of misfortune. Both Lord Byron and Sir Walter

Scott, from their earliest years, were lame. Each of them had what is called a club foot, or

something like it. But now what was the different effect produced by this lame foot on these two

boys?

“Lord Bryon, who was a perverse, selfish boy, was made by this club foot discontented

and angry with everyone about him. It went like iron into his soul. It poisoned his heart. It set

him against all mankind, and it injured his whole character. He had a splendid genius for writing

beautiful verse, but amidst many fine qualities, it was a genius blackened and discolored by

hatred, malice, uncharitableness, and the deepest gloom.


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“Walter Scott, on the other hand, never lost his cheerfulness. His lame foot made him

turn to the reading of good old books, and to the enjoyment of the beautiful sights and sounds

about him. And he, too, grew to be a great poet, and a writer of stories which will live in every

age and in every country. In him, the lameness which he had borne patiently and cheerfully in

childhood never interfered with his kindliness and his good humor to those about him. He was a

delight to all that came across him; and even when he was at last overtaken by heavier

misfortunes, he never lost his loving, generous disposition.

“This, then, is the lesson I would wish to teach to all children who are sickly and

suffering: Do not think that you are without an object; do not think that you cannot be useful; do

not think that everything has gone against you.

“No. It is well with you. You can be most useful; you can be the useful child; and when

you grow up you can be the useful man or the useful woman in the home.

“You can arrange plans for the amusement of those who are too busy to arrange for it

themselves; you can show by your constant cheerfulness that happiness does not depend on the

good things which you eat or on the active games which you play, but on a contented, joyful

heart.

“And you children who are strong and healthy, remember that to you this little sick

brother or little sick sister is a blessing that God has given you. It is well for you to have them.

They may not be able to share in your games; you will often be obliged to be quiet in their sick

rooms, or when they come amongst you. But that is good for you, because it makes you see very

early the joy, the happiness, the usefulness of having someone weaker than yourself – someone

in pain or suffering to whom you can minister like a ministering angel.

“Do not be hasty or angry with a deaf brother, or, I may say, a deaf mother or aunt,

because they cannot hear you; or a blind sister, or, I may say; a blind father or uncle, because

they cannot see; or with a lame or deformed brother or cousin or companion because they cannot

take an active part in your amusements.

“No, they cannot do this; but they can do much better than this for you. They can make

you feel for deafness and blindness and lameness everywhere. When you have seen it in those

you love, you will be reminded of it in those you do not love. And if you have had any of these

misfortunes and have grown out of them, the recollection of what you have suffered may make

you of much use to others.

“In every family where there is a sick child, remember that it is your duty, your privilege,

to look after such. They are your special charges. They are our earliest and best teachers in the

good way.”

Taken from The Character Building Readers by Ellen E. Kenyon-Warner (1910), Sixth Reader,

Fidelity and Justice, p. 139-142.

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1. How did Walter Scott apply the principle of Grati to his trial and life?

2. What was Lord Byron lacking in his understanding of his trial? What have you learned

that might have helped him live a happier life?

3. What does it mean to be grateful in your circumstances? How is this illustrated in this

sermon?

4. What are some of your trials? What are they teaching you? How is the principle of Grati

helping you?


• Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls (Ages: 7+) 10-year-old Billy Colman has

a dream to own two hound dogs. For two years, young Billy works hard to earn enough

money to finally buy two puppies, which he names Old Dan and Little Ann. With care

and patience, Billy trains them to hunt the hills for raccoons, and they become well

known in the region for their amazing abilities. Billy experiences heartache and

adventure with his beloved dogs, in this classic tale of love and sacrifice.

• Because of Winn-Dixie by Kate DiCamillo (Ages: 9+). When Opal Buloni is 10-years-

old, she moves to a new town with her father where she meets a stray dog who changes

her life forever. It is because of Winn-Dixie that Opal makes friends, and finally finds the

courage to talk to her dad about her mother, who left her when she was only three.

• Bobbie the Wonder Dog: A True Story by Tricia Brown. This is the true story about

Bobbie, an average looking collie, who proves to be exceptional. In 1923, on a cross-

country trip, from Oregon to Indiana, USA, Bobbie is chased off by other dogs. After a

week of searching the area for him, his brokenhearted family has to return home to

Oregon, leaving him behind. Six months later, a starved, weak, and bone-weary Bobbie

returns home after walking 2,800 miles.


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Grati Movies

Soul Surfer Island Film Group 2011. An inspiring and uplifting story of a competitive surfer,

Bethany Hamilton, who loses her arm to a shark attack. Exhibiting tremendous gratitude, hope,

and faith, and defying all odds, she courageously becomes a surfing champion once again.

1. What "moments of choice" did Bethany face in dealing with her situation? Can you

identify them as you watch the movie?

2. When did she choose to be grateful? You may be able to see this in her actions, her

words, or how she is thinking towards her new life.

3. What were the signs when she slipped further away from gratitude? What were the signs

in the other characters in the story?

4. Would she have been able to become a champion again without gratitude?

The Berenstain Bears - Count Their Blessings YouTube. Brother and Sister Bear are

discontent because their friends have more and better toys than they think they have. During a

fierce thunderstorm, they learn how to count their blessings.

1. When Brother and Sister bear focused on the things their friends had but they didn't, how

did they feel? How did their parents feel?

2. What did the cubs do to recognize their blessings?

3. How did the cubs feel when they started counting their blessings?

4. When did Mama and Papa bear realize they needed to count their blessings too?

5. Is it easier for you to recognize blessings when things are going well or when they are

going poorly? Why?

My Shoes OrganoTeamElite on YouTube 2014.

1. At the first of the video, did you feel sorry for the boy with the holes in his shoes?

Why? How did your perception change about the blessings this boy had?

2. What did this video teach you about gratitude?

3. Have you ever wished you could trade places with someone else? How might you look at

your life differently after watching this short story?


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Grati Lesson Ideas Discussion Questions

1. Learn one additional fact about Labrador dogs and how they remind you of being

grateful.

2. How can thinking more positively about things you are grateful for influence you to have

more Peace, Happiness, and Joy (PHJ)?

Song Extensions

• COLOR: Invite your students to color the Grati coloring page as they listen to the song.

• DISCUSSION: Listen to Grati the Dog. How can having a positive attitude help

things work together for your good?




• OPTIONAL ATTENTION ACTIVITY: Divide your class into groups and play a

round of dominoes (Mexican Train). Whenever someone plays on the

Mexican/Community Train, invite them to say one thing they are grateful for.

• VIDEO: Find a video clip about the Labrador dog to watch and discuss.

• ACTIVITY: Write 5 things you are grateful for each day. You could also start with the

letter A for the first day and think of all the things you are grateful for that begins with

that letter. Go to the next letter for the next day. Seeing a growing list is fun!

• ART COOKING: Make a thank you card for someone and write in it why you are

thankful for them. Give them the card and include a plate of cookies.

• ART: Create a poster with the phrase, “All things work together for your good.” Share

this creation with a friend or family member.

• QUOTE ACTIVITY AND ART PROJECT: Collect quotes on recipes cards related to

gratitude. Color and illustrate them and then give them away as a gift to someone you are

grateful for.

• ACTIVITY: Make a list together or individually of all the things that you are thankful

for. Now imagine removing one of the things off of your list. How would your life be


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different if you didn’t have it? How can you appreciate the daily things that benefit your

life?

• OBJECT LESSON: If appropriate bring a Labrador to class and spend some

quality time with a dog and observe how it reacts to you. You can also challenge your

students to spend quality time with a dog.

1. Discussion questions

2. How did the dog respond to your attention?

3. How did he show gratitude?

4. How do you feel when you are around a dog that shows gratitude?

5. How can we show gratitude?

6. How do people respond to us when we show gratitude?

• ACTIVITY: SPECIAL GUEST. Who has done a lot to help your class? Invite

someone to your class for a special event, treat them like royalty and express appreciate

for them.


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Ensuot

(EN-soo-aht)



• 1828 definition of encourage: To give courage to; to give or increase confidence of

success; to inspire with courage, spirit of strength of mind; to embolden; to animate; to

incite, to inspirit.

• Listen to Ensuot the Otter . Record any thoughts or impressions.

• Read through the otter facts . After reading the animal facts and listening to the song,

how could you liken the otter to encouraging and supporting others?

• How have others encouraged and supported you? How have individuals in your core

books served others? How did their service uplift and strengthen those they served?

READ THE TALE OF HOPE: Read together the Ensuot section in The Tale of Hope: Island of


LISTEN TO THE SONG: Listen to Ensuot the Otter.

Ensuot (The Otter)

Reach out in encouragement and support others. Be on the lookout for ways to serve

others, to lift and strengthen.

HOW TO USE ENSUOT RESULTS FROM APPLYING ENSUOT

• Selflessly reach out in the service,

support, and encouragement of others.

• Leave others feeling uplifted and

strengthened by your words and actions.

• Inspire hope by living with a positive

attitude.

• Remember to encourage yourself as well.

• Improves the self-worth of both the giver

and the receiver

• Opens up two-way communication

• Builds respect and trust, and assists in

family and class cohesiveness

• Engenders Peace, Happiness and Joy

(PHJ), and therefore greatly assists to

inspire self and others to be successful

Island of Abundance Ensuot

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EXPLORE THE OTTER:

1. Sea otters weigh between 50-100 lbs and have wide webbed feet which help them

effectively swim in the water, but make it awkward to walk on land.

2. These sea mammals live in salt water and almost never leave the water. Some of the sea

otters’ favorite foods are urchins, octopus, crabs, starfish, snails, and clams which they

eat off their belly as they float on their backs.

3. Sea otters will hold hands while sleeping to keep themselves from drifting away. A

group of sea otters resting together is called a raft. These clever animals will also use

long strands of kelp from the ocean floor to anchor themselves in place so they do not

drift into the deep ocean water while resting.

4. Unlike other sea mammals, otters do not have blubber. Instead, they claim the prize as the

hairiest mammal on earth. They have two layers of fur, a thick undercoat and then long

strands of fur on the top. Air gets trapped between the skin and layers of fur that keeps

them warm, dry, and buoyant.

5. New born pups have so much air trapped between their skin and fur they cannot sink or

dive. A mother otter will tie her young to strands of kelp to keep them in place while she

hunts.

6. What else can you learn about sea otters?

PONDER:

1. Help young students understand what it means to encourage and support others. How

can you liken the sea otter to encouraging and supporting others?

2. Sea otters will hold hands while sleeping to keep from drifting away. How can you liken

this to Ensuot? What events, trials, or other things do members in your family and class

have going on in their life? How can you show encouragement and support?

3. Sea otters will use long strands of kelp to anchor themselves in place. How can you liken

this to Ensuot? How does service anchor you and help you become who you really are?

4. A mother otter will tie her pup to long strands of kelp to keep him safe while she hunts.

How can you show love and service to others?


Teaching Tip

“Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.”

~ William Butler Yeats

Teach when the student is ready, not necessarily when you were planning to teach. By

reading through the materials at the beginning of the week and choosing the stories and

activities you want to use, you can implement them whenever your students are ready to

learn. While it may work well to have a set time to teach, there may be times when your

students aren't ready. In those situations, ask yourself, 'How can I prepare their hearts for

learning?' If it feels forced, wait for the right moment. It will come if you are looking for it.

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Ensuot Stories

Count That Day Lost

If you sit down at set of sun

And count the acts that you have done,

And, counting, find

One self-denying deed, one word

That eased the heart of him who heard,

One glance most kind

That fell like sunshine where it went --

Then you may count that day well spent.

But if, through all the livelong day,

You've cheered no heart, by yea or nay --

If, through it all

You've nothing done that you can trace

That brought the sunshine to one face--

No act most small

That helped some soul and nothing cost --

Then count that day as worse than lost.

~ By George Eliot

(Real name: Mary Ann Evans, 1819-1880)


1. What are some things you can do today to “count [your] day well spent?”

2. How do kind acts help you feel happier? Do you have an example you can share?


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What the Yen Tzi Taught the Hunter

One day a hunter was looking for a fox in the wilderness, when suddenly he saw

thousands of birds coming towards the river, and he lay quite still and waited for them all to

come.

The Yen Tzi1, or Kind Birds, were talking together, and the hunter listened. One asked,

“Is all our company here?”

And the Leader Bird said, “No, little One-Month-Old and Two-Month and Mrs. This-

Year are not here yet.”

And the Leader Bird said to the Lookout Birds, “You must go after them and help them

to the river before five days. Our boats are dried and ready to sail. It is growing cold and we must

all go south together.”

So the Lookout Birds flew all around the country to hunt the lost birds. They found one

with a broken wing, and a little one with not enough wing feathers to fly far, and one with a

wound in his leg made by a hunter, and others that were tired or very hungry. They found every

missing bird, and this great family of friends were soon all together again.

But while the Lookout Birds were seeking the lost ones from their own family, they heard

another bird cry, “Save me! Same me, too!” And they stopped and said, “Who is calling?

Someone must be in trouble.”

They flew to a lemon tree and saw a Tailor Bird with her leg all covered with blood. The

Kind Birds said, “Friend, how came you in such trouble? What is your name and where do you

live?”

The Tailor Bird said, “I live in the South Province, eight hundred miles away. I came

here to see my friends and relatives. Three of my children are with me, and we are on our way

home to the south. We had gone sixty miles, when I asked my children to stop and rest in this

lemon tree, and now I do not even know where they are. I fear the hunter got them. I am hurt,

too, and I do not think I shall ever see my home again. I shall lose my life here, I fear.”

1 The Yen Tzi, or Kind Bird, is a species of the fly-catcher family found in China. They migrate in the

spring and fall, and never winter where the weather is very cold. They are very tame, sometimes even

building nests in the houses of the Chinese, and eating with the chickens at feeding time. They are very

gentle, never fight among themselves or with others, share their nests with each other or even with other

birds. Hence the name “Kind Birds.” They are also sometimes called “Sociable Birds,” because they

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The Yen Tzi heard all the Tailor Bird said. They talked together and were sorry for her

who had no one to care for her, for they knew her children had been killed by the hunter. “If we

do not save her life, she will surely die,” they said.

So they asked, “Would you like to go with us? We know you eat different food. We live

on rice and fruit and a few bugs. We do not know that you can live as we do. And we must ride

on our boats, many, many, hours.”

The Tailor Bird answered, “Yes, I will go gladly, and will eat what you have and cause

you no trouble.”

The Kind Birds helped the Tailor Bird to their company and put her in one of their boats,

and two or three birds fed her and cared for her until she was well.

The hunter who told this story said, “I have learned many things by watching and

studying the habits of the Kind Birds. I will never kill birds again.”

Ee-Sze (Meaning): In time of trouble, man should help not only his own, but others.

Taken from Chinese Fables and Folk Stories by Mary Hayes Davis and Chow-Leung (1908), p.

79.

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1. What did you learn from the Kind Birds?

2. How can you be more like them in your own life?


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How the Boys Befriended the Old Lady

by Fannie Lascome

On a busy corner of a crowded city street, an old lady was standing, watching for a

chance to cross.

She had stood there some time, and was growing quite weary. So many trolley cars and

wagons and carriages were speeding past, that she was afraid to venture alone into the roadway.

The cars went very fast, and there always seemed to be one passing. Once in a while

there was room between them to get across. Then a carriage or truck would be sure to come

between.

The old lady was quite timid. Even if the carriages were not very close, she was afraid of

them. She could not move very quickly.

“The city is no place for slow people,” she said to herself. Just then, she saw a new

danger approaching. It was a crowd of school boys on their way home.

“Oh, dear!” exclaimed the old lady, “what shall I do now? The horses keep to the

roadway, but rough boys may knock against one anywhere. Here they come. They will jostle me

off the sidewalk. I shall fall under the horses’ hoofs and the carriage wheels.”

But one boy came toward her ahead of the others. He looked at her with a bright, friendly

smile. “Are you waiting to get across?” he asked.

“Yes, dear,” she replied. “But there are so many horses, and I cannot walk very fast.”

“Look out, fellows!” cried Walter, for that was the boy’s name. The other boys were

coming up with a thoughtless rush. One of them was running backward. None of them seemed to

be looking ahead very carefully.

Walter was afraid they would do the old lady some harm. “This is some fellow’s

mother,” he said. “Be careful of her.”

Not one of the boys would have wanted to see rudeness shown to his own mother. So

they all checked their speed and some of their caps came off.

Then Walter and a still larger boy led the old lady across the street. One walked on each

side of her, holding her arm. They watched their chance to pass between the cars, and warned

back the drivers of horses with their hands.

The other boys followed close behind. It would have been hard for harm to come to an

old lady so well guarded. And no harm came to this one.

Taken from The Character Building Readers by Ellen E. Kenyon-Warner (1910), Second

Reader: Cooperation and Helpfulness, pp. 116.

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1. How do you feel about Walter? What qualities can you identify in him?

2. How do these boys inspire you to encourage and support others?


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Ensuot Movies

Little Women Columbia Pictures 1994. This movie is Louisa May Alcott's semi-

autobiographical story of she and her sisters. Set during the Civil War, the character and

commitment the family shows will warm your heart and be a shining example of the best in

human nature.

1. How did the March family encourage and support one another?

2. Who taught the sisters how to care so much for each other? What did Marmie teach you

about being a good mother?

3. What scenes caused you to feel the warmth and closeness of the family?

4. How did the encouragement the family showed each other spill over to their other

relationships?

5. The March family had many friends that encouraged and supported them. What were

your favorite examples of this?

6. How did Marmie encourage her daughters in ways no one else could?

7. What can you do to practice Ensuot in your family?

The Greatest Game Ever Played Touchstone Pictures 2005. Based on a true story of the 20-

year-old golfer, Francis Ouimet. Ouimet upset the US Open in 1913 when he played against the

world's finest golfers, including his boyhood idol, Harry Vardon.

1. Did everyone encourage and support Francis in his golf? How did Francis continue to

move forward without his family's support?

2. Would Francis have been able to win the US open without the encouragement of others?

Who helped make it possible?

3. Francis’ caddie, Eddie, was a great help to him. How did Francis encourage and support

him in return? What was the result?

4. How are abundance and Ensuot connected?

5. How did Francis' hero, Vardon, show an abundance attitude? What are your

feelings toward Vardon?


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Ensuot Lesson Ideas


1. Name one fact about the otter and how it can teach us about being encouraging or

supporting of others.

2. What are some examples of encouraging words? In what circumstances could these

words be used?

Song Extensions

• COLOR: Invite your class to color the Ensuot coloring page as they listen to the song.

• DISCUSSION: Listen to Ensuot the Otter. Encourage your students to smile at each

other, or draw a smiley face on a piece of paper each time they hear the word service

• ACTIVITY: Encourage your students to look for someone they can help in their home

or neighborhood. Reach out to them with an attitude of service in their heart. Provide

opportunities for your students to share their experiences.




• OPTIONAL ATTENTION OBJECT LESSON: Give each person a candle and go

into a dark room. Light the first candle before you go into the room. Stand in a circle

and then light the candle of the person standing next to you. Have that person light the

candle of the person standing next to him. Continue until each person has their candle

lit. Discuss how our encouraging words can “light” up a person which influences them to

also share their light with others.

• VIDEO: Find a video clip about an otter to watch and discuss.

• ACTIVITY: Invite your students to choose a family member at the beginning of the

week and secretly serve that person throughout the week. Do this for two weeks and then

share how serving their family member brought more love into their heart and home.

• ART: Make a card encouraging someone you know.

• OBJECT LESSON: Our words can be encouraging. Gather two separate cups of water,

in clear glasses, and food coloring. Water represents people and the food coloring

represent our encouraging words. Add a couple of drops of food coloring (encouraging

words) to the water and stir. See how the coloring permeates the glass of water. Now add

the colored cup of water to the other cup of water and see what happens. How was the

other glass of water (person) affected?


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Cobamu (koh-BAM-oo)

Comes Back Multiplied

Enligh: Prepare Yourself

• 1828 definition of reap: to gather; to obtain; to receive as a reward, or as the fruit of

labor or of works; in a good or bad sense

• 1828 definition of sow: to scatter, as in seed

• 1828 definition of multiply: to increase in number; to make more by natural generation

or production, or by addition; to increase in extent; to extend; to spread

• Listen to Cobamu the Sea Turtle . Record your thoughts and impressions.

• Read the sea turtle facts . After reading the animal facts and listening to the song,

how could you liken the sea turtle to the Law of the Harvest?

• Study the Law of the Harvest or the word multiply in your core books. What does it

mean to you? Find stories where this Law is exemplified and identify similarities to your

own life.

Cobamu (The Sea Turtle)

The Law of the Harvest: We reap what we sow! Whatever we give out comes back

multiplied, whether it is positive or negative.

HOW TO USE COBAMU RESULTS FROM APPLYING COBAMU

• Give out only that which you desire

from life.

• Support and encourage others.

• Develop an attitude of abundance.

• Give selflessly, void of the intention to

receive.

• Reap good by sowing good!

• Increases feelings of satisfaction and self-

worth

• Builds a life of increased abundance and

fulfillment

• Encourages all with whom you associate

to do the same

• Opens the door to receive increased levels

of love, support and encouragement

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READ THE TALE OF HOPE: COMING SOON!

LISTEN TO THE SONG: Cobamu the Sea Turtle.

EXPLORE THE SEA TURTLE:

1. Sea turtles have been around since the age of the dinosaurs and can be found in almost

every ocean basin throughout the world. The sea turtles’ shell (or “carapace”) is designed

to protect them from their natural predators and to glide through water with ease. Unlike

other turtles, sea turtles cannot retract their legs and head into their shells.

2. The champion of sea turtles is the enormous leatherback, which can grow up to seven feet

(two meters) long and weigh more than 2,000 pounds (900 kilograms)! Leatherbacks are

capable of diving deeper than any other turtle and withstanding the coldest water

temperatures found in both the northern and southern hemispheres. They are known to

travel up to 10,000 miles a year.

3. The actual sea turtle lifespan is not known for certain. Most estimates put it between 50-

80 years with many scientists acknowledging that some species can live over a century.

4. A long lifespan provides more opportunities to procreate. Sea turtles spend their entire

lives at sea, except when adult females come ashore to lay eggs every two to three years.

Female sea turtles return to the same nesting grounds where they were born and will lay

up to 150 eggs in a season.

5. After about 60 days, baby sea turtles (known as “hatchlings”) emerge from their sandy

nests and scuttle as fast as they can to the ocean. This is a very dangerous time for them

as they are particularly vulnerable until their shell hardens. The gender of each turtle

depends on how hot or cold their environment was while they were in their eggs. Warm

temperatures tend to produce more female hatchlings, whereas cooler temperatures result

in males.

6. Of the seven species of sea turtles, six are endangered or threatened; in part due to

poaching, entanglement, and pollution. It is estimated that only one hatchling in a

thousand will make it to adulthood.

7. What else can you learn about sea turtles?

PONDER:

1. How can you liken the sea turtle’s story to the Law of the Harvest (i.e. whatever we give

out comes back multiplied, whether positive or negative)?

2. Sea turtles have survived since the days of the dinosaur! Does their survival have

something to do with Cobamu? How?

3. Out of thousands of possible beaches, female sea turtles return to the same nesting

grounds where they were born to lay their eggs. Why is this significant? What does this

have to do with Cobamu (comes back multiplied) and you?


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4. Despite the incredible dangers they face in their lifetime, sea turtles still manage to

survive and even thrive. How does this parallel your individual mission and how you will

contribute in your life?

5. The gender of each turtle depends on how hot or cold their environment was while they

were in their eggs. With the great dependence on female turtles to lay eggs, why is this

significant to the survival of the species? What powers are at play in behalf of their

existence?

Teaching Tip

The teaching of your own children and your students has a horizontal and vertical impact.

Horizontally, it will affect your children’s and student’s friends, acquaintances, future co-

workers, community, etc. Vertically, the reverberations will be felt for countless generations

and involve thousands of people. It will literally come back multiplied!

Can you think of a more important or impactful use of your time than teaching your own

children and your students?


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Cobamu Stories

How One Great Kindness was

Multiplied 350 Million Times

by Beth Southwick

In 1892, a few friends from Stanford University were brainstorming ways to earn money

for their education. One of them was an 18-year-old orphan named Herbert Hoover.

“Our school needs concerts,” one of them suggested. “We can rent a hall, schedule the

entertainment, and sell tickets. With the remaining profits we could pay our tuition.”

The boys looked at one another and each readily agreed to the brilliant idea.

“What if we start with Paderewski? He is in California as we speak. I bet we can get him

to do a concert here.”

“Paderewski would be perfect!” The boys heartily agreed. “Let’s get in touch with his

manager and work it out.”

Ignacy Jan Paderewski was a famous pianist from Poland who happened to be touring

America that same year. The students visited with Paderewski’s manager and set up a time when

the concert could take place. The date was set and the students pledged to pay Paderewski $2000

for his performance. This was a huge sum back then. Most men worked ten hours a day to earn

$2. But these young students were eager and excited. They had secured a performance with the

great Paderewski! The concert was sure to be an amazing success.

Immediately, the boys began selling tickets; and, almost immediately, they realized a

huge mistake in their planning. The date they had scheduled for the concert fell over spring

break, which meant that much of the student body and faculty would be gone! Herbert and his

friends worked hard to fill the concert hall; but as the date steadily approached, the young men

were only able to raise $1600 of the promised $2000. Heartsick, they approached Paderewski

and explained their dilemma.

“Sir, we can offer you $1600 now with the pledge to pay the remaining $400 as soon as

we can earn it. Would that be acceptable to you?”

Paderewski vigorously shook his head and replied, in a thick Polish accent, “No. That

would not be acceptable to me at all.”

The students were crestfallen. Their brilliant plan was falling apart at their feet and they

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But then, with a twinkle in his eye, the great pianist showed yet another greatness. “What

would be acceptable to me is for you to take the $1600 and pay all of your other expenses first.

Pay the rent on the concert hall and pay your tuition; then, you may give me whatever you have

left.”

Stunned, Herbert and his friends humbly thanked Paderewski for his kindness.

The following day, the Polish virtuoso played before a cheering audience. But he had no

greater fans than the few struggling students to whom he had shown such great compassion.

Paderewski became known worldwide for his amazing generosity. As for Herbert, he

finished his schooling at Stanford and became an extremely successful engineer, working and

traveling the world over.

But the story doesn’t end there.

Two decades later, in August 1914, World War I hit Europe, and thousands of American

citizens found themselves stranded across the sea. Herbert was asked by the United States

government to take charge of evacuating these citizens. Over 100,000 people were brought home

safely, thanks to his efforts. In addition, Herbert worked throughout the war to feed the starving

people of Belgium. One US ambassador said of him, “Herbert Hoover began his career in

California and he will end it in heaven. And he doesn’t want any thanks.”

World War I ended on November 11, 1918.

In February 1919, the United States Congress formed the American Relief

Administration (ARA) to bring aid to the war-torn people in Europe. President Woodrow Wilson

asked Herbert Hoover to head this effort.

Poland had been hit especially hard during the war and was suffering greatly. Millions of

people were starving. In a desperate effort to help his people, the famous pianist, Ignacy Jan

Paderewski, now the newly appointed Prime Minister of Poland, appealed to the United States

government for help. His request was sent on to none other than Herbert Hoover.

In August of that year, Herbert Hoover visited Poland and was greeted by 25,000

barefoot children. They had walked miles without shoes to meet him. Overwhelmed by their

plight, Herbert telegraphed the United States for help. 700,000 overcoats and pairs of shoes

arrived in Poland before winter came. Herbert also set up soup kitchens that provided meals for 2

million starving Poles every day. By the end of his service in Eastern Europe, Herbert Hoover

estimated that the ARA had helped 350 million people.

Not only was Herbert Hoover able to repay a grateful Paderewski the compassion shown

to him and his friends 27 years earlier, but the kindness was multiplied by millions.


1. Where did you see Cobamu in this story?


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2. Paderewski was not the only adult who helped Herbert find his way in the world. If

young Herbert didn’t have older people to help him along, would he have become as

great as he was? Who are some of your mentors? How can you show them your gratitude

by the way you live your life?

3. Research a little more about these remarkable men and see if you can see Cobamu in

other areas of their lives.

The Peasant and the Water-Sprite by Leo Tolstoy

A Peasant lost his axe in the river; he sat down on the bank in grief, and began to weep.

The Water-sprite heard the Peasant and took pity on him. He brought a gold axe out of the river,

and said: "Is this your axe?"

The Peasant said: "No, it is not mine."

The Water-sprite brought another, a silver axe.

Again the Peasant said: "It is not my axe."

Then the Water-sprite brought out the real axe.

The Peasant said: "Now this is my axe."

The Water-sprite made the Peasant a present of all three axes, for having told the truth.

At home the Peasant showed his axes to his friends, and told them what had happened to him.

One of the peasants made up his mind to do the same: he went to the river, purposely threw his

axe into the water, sat down on the bank, and began to weep.

The Water-sprite brought out a gold axe, and asked: "Is this your axe?"

The Peasant was glad, and called out: "It is mine, mine!"

The Water-sprite did not give him the gold axe, and did not bring him back his own either,

because he had told an untruth.

Source: Fables for Children by Leo Tolstoy (translated: 1904 by Leo Wiener)


1. How does this story relate to Cobamu?

2. Compare the two peasants. What was the same between them? What was different?

3. What virtues or characteristics must we possess in order to achieve Cobamu in our own

lives?

4. Have you seen this happen in your own life? When?


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Cobamu Movies

The Secret Garden Warner Brothers 1993. Mary Lennox is a newly orphaned child who leaves

India to live with her rich uncle who has no time or emotional reserves to spend on her. Her

boredom leads her to wandering the halls and the grounds until she discovers many secrets which

help her to heal herself and those around her.

1. Give examples of how people's fears came back multiplied.

2. Give examples of how people's kindness came back multiplied.

3. Give examples of how people's thoughts came back multiplied.

4. Mary and Colin both felt they weren't wanted by a parent. How did this show up in their

attitudes? Who and what helped them change for the better?

5. Colin's physical body responded to his and others' beliefs about his health. Do you think

this can happen in real life?

6. How is the secret garden a good symbol for Cobamu?

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas BBC Films, Miramax and Disney 2008. (Note to parents: This

film's themes may be unsettling and difficult for young children. Please preview

before showing.) Eight-year-old Bruno is growing up in Nazi Germany. His father,

a Nazi official, relocates the family to become commandant of a countryside concentration camp.

Bored and lonely, Bruno innocently wanders the fields until he arrives at a barbed fence where

he meets a hungry Jewish boy named Shmuel. As their friendship grows, Bruno's desire to help

the boy increases until one fateful day when he sneaks into the camp to help Shmuel locate his

missing father.

1. Bruno believed the propaganda videos that made life in the prison camps seem like a

great place to be. If his father had told the truth, would he have gone into the camp? How

do the lies we tell come back to hurt us?

2. Can we decide how things will come back to us? Who is exempt from this natural law?

3. How do the things we believe multiply in our behavior?

4. How does prejudice multiply in a culture when the leadership condones it?

5. How does Cobamu show up when prejudice is modeled by leadership?

6. Were there people who didn't return good for good? How did it feel toward them?

7. Did the Jews do anything to deserve imprisonment and death? Can we control the actions

of others and the consequences of those actions?

8. If you could summarize what this movie taught you about Cobamu, what would it be?

9. What do you think Bruno’s parents learned from his death?


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Cobamu Lesson Ideas


1. Name one fact about the sea turtle and how it reminds you of something in your life

coming back multiplied.

2. How does multiplication work? It reflects repeated addition. How can adding good

things into your life multiply for increased Peace, Happiness, and Joy (PHJ)?

Song Extensions

• COLOR: Invite your class to color the Cobamu coloring page as they listen to the song.

• DISCUSSION: What do the words 'reap' and 'sow' mean? Listen to Cobamu the Sea

Turtle.

• ACTIVITY: After listening to the song, go on a service seeking search. Time a few

members of your class for 2 minutes and see how much service they can perform within

the walls of their own school. Have them report to the rest of the class their experience.




• OPTIONAL ATTENTION ACTIVITY: OCEAN MOTION. Watch a video of ocean

waves and notice how the motion of the waves continually comes back to shore. Think

about how our actions can come back and deliver good things into our lives as we fill our

lives with good habits and fulfilling purposes.

• VIDEO: Find a video clip about sea turtles to watch and discuss.

• ACTIVITY: Make a mini-boomerang and watch and observe how they come back to

you. How can our kind actions return back to us?

• ACTIVITY: Create a Giving Jar. Encourage all class members to contribute to the jar

with the end goal of using the money to have a gratitude party and to share some of the

deposits that have been made with a person in need. The collection period of time may

vary according to the deposits received. Also, consider having an activity that would

generate funds like a bake sale or lemonade stand, which could then be donated to your

giving jar. These funds, when multiplied by so many, will come back to bless not

only your class but the life of someone else.


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• ACTIVITY: To teach the principle of the law of the harvest, plant a garden or small pot

with flowers or vegetables. Tend and take care of your seeds by watering, weeding, and

then harvesting.

• OBJECT LESSON: Get an apple and read this quote: “You can count the seeds in an

apple. But can you count the apples in a seed?” What does this mean? Count the seeds in

your apple and share it.


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Faiho (FAY-hoh)

Faith and Hope


• 1828 definition of faith: noun. Latin fides, fido, to trust; Gr. to persuade, to draw towards

anything, to conciliate; to believe, to obey

• 1828 definition of hope: confidence in a future event; the highest degree of well-founded

expectation of good

• Listen to Faiho the Dove . Record any thoughts or impressions.

• Read through the dove facts . After reading the animal facts and listening to the

song, how could you liken the dove to faith and hope?

• Study Faith and Hope in your core books. What do they mean to you personally? Find

stories of individuals who continuously achieved through their exercise of faith and hope.

READ THE TALE OF HOPE: Read together the Faiho section in The Tale of Hope: Island of


LISTEN TO THE SONG: Faiho the Dove.

Faiho (The Dove)

Faith and Hope are the master principles of continuous achievement. They continually spur us

on, lighting the way even in our darkest hours. They increase our capacity to endure and

overcome.

HOW TO USE FAIHO RESULTS FROM APPLYING FAIHO

• Hold on with Faith and Hope,

and never give up!

• Don’t procrastinate developing

the perfect plan.

• Take the first step in Faith and

the next step will become

apparent.

• “Through all struggles, peace and assurance will

prevail.

• “Questions and doubts will be turned into

assurances and understanding.

• “The unknown, unseen, and unexplained can be

approached with unquestioning assurance.

• “Even in the seemingly worst of times, you will

recognize with peace and reassurance that, in

reality, it is the best of times.” Richard C Edgley

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EXPLORE THE DOVE:

1. Doves and pigeons belong to the same family, Columbidae, and have many similar

features. Their ability to find their way home over hundreds, even thousands, of miles is

unsurpassed in the animal kingdom.

2. The long, pointed wings and tail of the mourning dove enable these birds to fly fast.

Mourning doves have been clocked at 55 mph!

3. Doves can adapt to almost any environment. The only places in the world they are not

found are in places of extreme conditions such as deserts and the Antarctic.

4. Doves mate for life. Beginning as early as 7 months old, female doves can begin

breeding. Females almost always lay two eggs at a time. Although possible, it is very rare

that they lay only one egg, as is three or more eggs.

5. Eggs are typically laid 8-12 days after mating. The incubation period is only 18 days

before the eggs will hatch. Such a short gestation period means a pair of doves can have

up to 9 broods a year.

6. When baby doves are born, both the male and female adults secrete a cottage cheese type

milk called “crop milk” to feed them for the first 3 days of their life. This milk is richer in

protein and fat than milk produced by mammals.

7. Doves are primarily seed-eaters, not insect-eaters. When they grab seeds off the ground,

they are not necessarily eating them--they are saving them for later. The seeds collect in

the “crop,” which is simply an enlarged part of their esophagus. They will digest this

food source at another time.

8. What else can you learn about doves?

PONDER:

1. How can you liken the dove to faith and hope?

2. Doves can adapt themselves to almost any environment. How does faith and hope play a

vital role in our happiness, especially when we find ourselves in unfamiliar and even

hostile circumstances?

3. Doves mate for life and both take care of their young. Why is it important for both faith

and hope to work together? How can you strengthen your collective faith and hope in

your family and class unit?

4. Doves have a way to save their food for later nourishment. How can we be sure to have a

reserve of faith and hope when we are faced with difficult situations and need their

strength?


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5. Doves and pigeons belong to the same family and have many similar features. Over

100,000 pigeons played a vital role in World War I. Their strength was not only their

homing abilities, but their speed. This speed made it nearly impossible for enemy

marksmen to shoot them down, giving the homing pigeons a 95% success rate! Possibly

the only effective countermeasure for the enemy was to release birds of prey to hunt the

pigeons down. What are some things that can pull us down and cause us to lose our hope

and our faith? What do we do about them and how can we safeguard ourselves against

them?

Teaching Tip

“Nothing touches the soul but leaves its impress, and thus, little by little, we are fashioned

into the image of all we have seen and heard, known and meditated; and if we learn to live

with all that is fairest and purest and best, the love of it all will in the end become our life.”

~David B Haight

As you have journeyed to Cowra, you have blessed your students by impressing on their

souls the light and joy of true and beautiful principles. Consider that we learn best through

repetition and that there are endless levels of learning when practicing true principles.

How would your student’s life be blessed by going through the program again, but this

time at a deeper level?


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Faiho Stories Ann’s Faith

Retold by Cindy Taylor

Ann was playing outside. She heard her mom call, “Ann! Ann! Come here please.” Ann

ran to see what her mom wanted. “Dad is out working on the new well. I want you to take his

lunch to him.”

“Okay,” Ann said happily. She was always happy when she got to see her dad. Ann ran

all the way out to the new well her father was digging. She could not see him. She looked all

around; but he was not there.

“Dad!” yelled Ann. “Daddy, where are you?”

From deep inside the well she heard his voice. “I am down here.”

Ann leaned over the edge of the well and peered into the deep hole. She could not see her

father. All she could see was darkness.

“Daddy?” she called in a small voice. “Are you really there?”

“Yes, I’m here, Honey.”

“I can’t see you,” Ann said, still looking in the hole.

“I can see you just fine,” her dad said.

“I brought you some lunch,” Ann said.

“Wonderful! Just drop it down and I will catch it.”

Ann carefully lifted the lunch bag over the edge of the well and dropped it. She heard her

father catch the sack and open it.

“There’s enough here for two,” Dad called to Ann. “Come and join me.”

“How do I get down there, Daddy?” Ann asked.

“You will have to jump. But don’t worry; I will catch you.”

“I’m afraid, Daddy. It’s so dark down there and I can’t see you.”

“Ann, do you know it is me down here?”

“Yes, I can hear your voice,” she said.

“And do you love me?”

“More than anything, Daddy?”

“And do you know that I love you to the moon and back?”

“Yes.

“Then you have to have faith and trust that I will catch you,” her father said gently.

Ann sat on the edge of the well and dangled her feet into the hole. Her heart was

thumping hard in her chest.

“I can see you, Ann. I will catch you. Just let go.”

Ann pushed herself into the hole and felt herself falling. In seconds she was in the arms

of her father who held her tight and kissed her.

“That was very brave, Ann. I am very proud of you. Thank you for believing in me.”

“I love you, Daddy.”

“I love you too, Ann. Now let’s eat some lunch.”


1. How did Ann exhibit her faith in this story?


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2. What part did hope play in her experience?

3. Have you ever had a similar experience you would like to share?

Cher Ami Feathered Hero of World War I

by Colleen Jensen

During World War I, “tweets” and “twitters” were a crucial form of communication - but

not in the way we know it today. Real live birds were the feathered messengers of the army.

Carrier pigeons were ideal for the job because they have an incredible sense of direction and can

fly to their homes from many miles away. Some of their duties included wearing a camera to

take pictures of enemy positions or delivering important messages

on paper neatly folded and placed in a tiny canister attached to the

pigeon’s leg.

One of the most recognized carrier pigeons was Cher Ami -

French for “Dear Friend.” He served in the fall of 1918 and

completed 12 important missions; but his final one, on October

4th, 1918, proved the depth of his commitment.

October 3, 1918 – U.S. Major Whittlesey and 500 soldiers

in the 77th Infantry Division, known as the Liberty Division, found

themselves trapped in a small depression on the side of the hill.

German soldiers surrounded them, killing and wounding nearly

300 Americans.

Major Whittlesey sent several pigeons, trying to inform his

commanders how dire the situation was; but they were all shot

down. By the next afternoon, the Division’s last hope was Cher Ami.

Midday on October 4th, the American artillery tried to protect the stranded group by

firing hundreds of big artillery rounds at the Germans. Unfortunately, without a definitive

location, they were unknowingly dropping the shells on their very own men!

Major Whittlesey had to rely on Cher Ami to deliver a simple but lifesaving note that

read:

“We are along the road parallel to 276.4.

“Our own artillery is dropping a barrage

directly on us.

For heaven’s sake, stop it!”

Cher Ami was released and immediately the Germans opened fire. In the midst of bullets,

it appeared as if the pigeon was going to fall and the battalion was doomed. Their hearts sank

until, miraculously, Cher Ami pulled out of his earth-bound plummet and began flying beyond

the range of the enemy's gunfire. The infantrymen cheered.

Cher Ami returned to his home-base coop badly wounded. The soldier who came when

the bell sounded found a near lifeless bird. This feathered messenger had flown 25 miles in 25

minutes to successfully deliver the message that redirected the shelling and saved more than 200

American lives. This remarkable pigeon had only made it home by sheer determination to


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complete his job. Cher Ami had been blinded in one eye, received a quarter-sized bullet wound in

his breastbone, and the leg with the canister on it was hanging by only a few tendons.

This brave little hero was given the best medical care - even a carved wooden leg. Cher

Ami was presented with the French Croix de guerre medal for bravery and determination.

Eventually the one-legged bird was sent by boat to the United States where his story was

told over and over. He was truly a bird committed to his mission!

June 13, 1919 - Cher Ami died as a result of his war injuries. A taxidermist preserved the

small pigeon for future generations and he is on display at the National Museum of American

History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.


1. The pigeon and the dove are related. How is Cher Ami an example of Faiho?

2. Even though Cher Ami was wounded performing his mission, he did it! How can his

example of courage help you achieve what may be overwhelming and seem impossible?

The Rabbi and the Soap Maker An Old Jewish Tale

A rabbi and a soap maker went for a walk together. The soap maker said, “What good is

religion? Look at all the trouble and misery of the world. Still there, even after years—thousands

of years—of teaching about goodness and truth and peace. Still there after all the prayers and

sermons and teachings. If religion is good and true, why should this be?” The rabbi said nothing.

They continued walking until the rabbi noticed a child playing in the gutter. Then the rabbi said,

“Look at the child. You say that soap makes people clean, but see the dirt on that youngster. Of

what good is soap? With all the soap in the world, the child is still filthy. I wonder how effective

soap is, after all!” The soap maker protested. “But, Rabbi, soap cannot do any good unless it is

used!” “Exactly,” replied the rabbi. “Exactly."


• The Mourning Dove by Larry Barkdull (Ages: 8+). The year is 1959, in Boise, Idaho.

Nine-year-old Sawyer Huish is orphaned and lives with his recently widowed

grandfather, Pop. Under the loving guidance of Pop, Sawyer learns some of life s most

important lessons: the responsibility that comes with love, the nature of charity, respect

for all living things, and the dangers in telling a lie. Pop is a humble man whose example

extends far beyond his small circle. While he has attained no social recognition or

position, the ripple effect of his example reaches generations into the future.

• http://www.mkgandhi.org/students/story.htm by Uma Shankar Joshi (Ages:3+). This

website is full of stories from Gandhi’s life. All good ones to tell to children. They all

show his faith and hope in life.


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Faiho Movies

Narnia Walden Media 2005. This epic movie brings to life C.S. Lewis' classic tale set in the

magical land of Narnia. Four siblings accidentally find themselves in a new world

where the White Witch has overtaken the people and created a world of permanent winter.

Together, with the rightful king, Aslan, the children must discover and use powers and strengths

they never knew they possessed to overcome the evil in the land and set things right.

1. What power did 'hope' have? Give some examples.

2. What symbols were used to show despair? What symbols were used to show hope?

3. The witch thought she could kill hope when she killed Aslan. Was she right?

4. What did Peter’s army have to hope for?

5. What can kill faith and hope? What keeps them alive?

6. Even after Aslan was killed, the land stayed green. Why didn’t it become winter again

immediately?

7. The children put their faith in Aslan. Who or what do you feel Aslan represents?

8. Who or what do you put your faith in?

Little Boy Metanoia Films 2015. (Note to Parents: Although clean, the dramatic themes of this

movie may be unsettling and difficult for little children to understand. Please preview.)

An 8-year-old boy will do anything to end World War II so his father can come home. This

heartwarming film depicts the great love a son can have for a loving father; and the faith that can

be wielded by the youngest among us.

1. How is faith like a mustard seed?

2. How are faith and hope connected? How did the boy's hope change as he gained more

faith?

3. How did the Little Boy demonstrate faith? How did it affect others?

4. Was it easy for the little boy to grow his faith? What did he have to do? What did he have

to give up?

5. Hashimoto said it takes courage to believe. When have you had courage to believe

something that seemed difficult or even impossible?

6. Sometimes the things we hope for and have faith in don’t seem to work out. What can we

do when this happens?


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Faiho Lesson Ideas Discussion Questions

1. What are two ways you can exercise greater faith and hope throughout your day? What

would help you remember to keep your thoughts focused in this manner?

2. How are faith and hope different? How are they similar?

Song Extensions

• COLOR: Invite your class to color the Faiho coloring page as they listen to the song.

• DISCUSSION: Listen to Faiho the Dove. What are some ways faith and hope help

you?

• ACTIVITY: Prepare in advance to have a candle you can light in the room you are

in. Turn off all of the lights and light the candle. Discuss ways that faith and hope can

illuminate your life. What are ways that you can increase the light (faith and hope)

in each other's lives?




• OPTIONAL ATTENTION ACTIVITY: “The heart wants what the heart

wants.” What are the desires of your heart? On a blank piece of paper, draw a heart

and decorate it with pictures or words that describe some of the things your heart is

hoping for (i.e. good health, loving relationships, financial security). Afterward, make

a large heart on the ground with a rope. Physically step into the heart and stand while

you make the connection of how we need to "step into action" where we exercise faith

and hope toward accomplishing our desires. Identify specific actions you can take toward

fulfilling what your heart wants.

• VIDEO: Find a video clip about doves to watch and discuss.

• ART: Create your own coloring book pages using images illustrating stories from your

core books that show faith and/or hope. Share the coloring book with a family member

or friend.

• QUOTE ACTIVITY: For an entire week, at the beginning of class, practice reciting a

quote pertaining to faith or hope. At the end of the week, reward all those able to recite

it.

• OBJECT LESSON: TREASURE HUNT. Tell your students that they're going to

find a treasure (or treat). The rules are they need to be blindfolded and you will lead


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them. Blindfold one or all the students at the same time. Take their hands and lead them

to the treasure. After they receive their prize, discuss how they felt when you explained

the activity and told them there would be a treat at the end.

- Why were they willing to follow you when they couldn't see the end result? Talk

about what faith and hope means in this scenario.

- If they would have stayed in the starting place, would they ever get to the

treasure? Discuss how they had to move forward, even blindfolded, in order to

find it. (That represents faith- you must move forward in order to receive the prize

at the end).

- Picture how you can have faith and hope in a future that you can’t see. How you

can show faith in your future?

• ACTIVITY: Watch a video that shows the motion of a dove flying. It is through the

motion of the dove working its wings back and forth that it is able to lift and fly to its

destination. How does this relate to faith and hope?


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Class Celebration Congratulations! You have successfully completed

the Island of Abundance.

Take a moment to celebrate and review with your students what you have learned. Below are

some celebration ideas.

• CLASS DINNER: Hold a special dinner. Decorate with items that remind you of each

animal. For example, stuffed animals or pictures of each of the animals. Serve foods that

remind you of each animal or find foods that are eaten by people who live near these

animals’ natural habitats. You may even consider inviting each students to come to

dinner representing one of the animals, invite them to be creative in how they represent

their animal and then see if everyone can guess who each other is. Discuss what you

learned and your favorite memories while on the Island of Abundance.

• COSTUME PARTY: Have each student design their own costume that represents an

animal on the Island of Abundance. Ask each of them to share a favorite story or

personal experiences they had while learning about the animal.

• GAME: Create a game to test your knowledge about the animal and the lessons they

teach us. Use the animal facts and song to help you generate questions for the game!

Give out rewards!

• GUEST SPEAKER: Invite a special guest to discuss how they implement one of the

principles from the Island of Abundance in their life.

• MOVIE: Enjoy treats as you watch an inspiring movie. At the conclusion, take a

moment to identify the principles, taught on the Island of Abundance, that were

exemplified in the movie. How did these principles, or lack of, affect the character and

those around them?

• AWARDS CEREMONY: Have an awards ceremony recognizing how each person

applied the principles in his or her life.

Island of Resilience Class Celebration

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Appendix Table of Contents

Abua

Facts and Pondering Questions…..57

Abua the Whale Lyrics...................58

Coloring Page................................59

Quotes............................................60

Word Puzzles.................................62

Goal Cards.....................................64

Cobamu


Cobamu the Sea Turtle Lyrics......85

Coloring Page................................86

Quotes............................................87

Word Puzzles.................................90

Goal Cards.....................................92

Grati


Grait the Labrador Lyrics.............66

Coloring Page................................67

Quotes............................................68

Word Puzzles.................................71

Goal Cards.....................................73

Faiho


Faiho the Dove Lyrics…..............94

Coloring Page................................95

Quotes............................................96

Word Puzzles.................................100

Goal Cards.....................................102

Ensuot


Ensuot the Otter Lyrics..................75

Coloring Page.................................76

Quotes.............................................77

Word Puzzles.................................81

Goal Cards.....................................83

Crossword Bank.................................103

Island of Abundance Appendix

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Abua the Whale

Abundance

ANIMAL FACTS

1. Humpback whales travel over the whole ocean from Antarctica in the

south to the Arctic in the north. At 50 feet (16 meters) long, and

weighing 40 tons, they are one of the largest animals on Earth, a little

bigger than a full-size school bus.

2. Despite their massive size, humpback whales can propel themselves

above the water and splash back down (breaching). Some scientists

think they do this to splash off parasites, but they may do it just to have

fun.

3. Humpback whales migrate farther than any other animal in the world. Some travel 16,000

miles each year.

4. Male humpback whales are known for their majestic song, which are a sequence of

moans, cries, and howls. The low frequency sounds from the whale can travel more than

10,000 miles in water without losing energy. They can sing the same song for hours and

even harmonize with other whales.

5. This enormous sea animal can eat 4,400-5,500 pounds (2000-2500 kg) of fish during the

feeding season.

6. What else can you learn about humpback whales?

PONDER

1. How can you liken the humpback whale to having an

abundant attitude?

2. Despite the enormous amounts of fish the humpback

whale eats, there is enough fish for other animals to eat.

What have you been abundantly blessed with that you can share with others?

3. A male humpback’s song can travel many miles and the whale can sing these songs for

hours. They can even harmonize with each other. What does it mean to share your gifts,

talents, and resources in the spirit of abundance? Can you think of an example?

4. Humpback whales travel farther than any other animal. How does having an abundant

attitude help you ‘travel’ farther in life and become who you really are?

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Abua the Whale

There is enough and more to spare.

Abua Abua

New creation happening everywhere.

Abua

Abundant talents, gifts, and things to share,

Abua, Abua

Multiplying and returning abundant fare.

Abua

We are awake and we're aware

Of abundant possibilities

Surrounding everywhere.

Unmatched probabilities

Of hope, joy, serenity,

Planted firmly in integrity!

We are warriors, not worriers,

Steadfast in all things.

We are warriors, not worriers!

Abundant tidings we bring.



Leading ever to our true identities.

Leading ever to our true identities,

abundantly.

I am grateful for all life brings to me.

Abua, Abua

Opportunity and challenge brought

abundantly.

Abua

It's a miracle, a miracle, everywhere,

Abua, Abua

Abundant talents, gifts, and things to share.

Abua



Surrounding everywhere.

Unmatched probabilities

Of hope, joy, serenity,

Planted firmly in integrity!

For we are warriors, not worriers

Steadfast in all things.

We are warriors, not worriers!

Abundant tidings we bring.



Leading ever to our true identities.

Leading ever to our true identities,

abundantly.

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“Seeing through the eyes

of an abundant attitude

eliminates a scarcity

mentality and opens up

unlimited opportunities.”

~ Roger Anthony

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“The depth of your

abundance depends on the

depth of your gratitude.” ~Anonymous

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ABUA CROSSWORD

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

Across

4. Abundant talents, gifts, and things to ____.

6. Leading ever to our true identities, ________.

7. We are ____ , not worriers.

8. There is enough and more to _____. Abua, Abua

Down

1. Abundant ______ we bring.

2. New ______ happening everywhere. Abua

3. _______ in all things.

5. We are awake and we're ______ of abundant possibilities.

*Hint: The answers can be found in the song. If you need additional help refer to the word bank at the end of the Appendix.

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ABUA WORD SEARCH

A H F S R Y H J M K L U F

G W H L E L B I S S O P B

B B A J T B K E K D K Y V

F J C R G F J R H G N J X

F R E N E A U B A T C H S

S E U G S S F Y N J D O W

R R R F D R S A Y E R P N

G A T T C G D G R L G E G

H D F E H N T V E A H T H

N H D D U O R H R H J R M

J T R B T P T O D W K D K

M D A G F J D J O Y K F Y

J L E U D G F P J L G C U

ABUA HOPE WHALE JOY ABUNDANT TRUE POSSIBLE AWARE

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Grati the Labrador

Have Gratitude

ANIMAL FACTS

1. Labrador retrievers are among the most popular dogs in the

world. They were named after the Labrador Sea, where they

were bred to help fishermen bring in nets and loose fish from

the water. They are a smaller version of the Newfoundland

dog.

2. A layered, slightly oiled coat keep these athletic dogs warm in

cold water. Labradors love water and are excellent swimmers

because of their webbed feet.

They have an otter-like tail that acts like a rudder in the water.

3. Labradors are very athletic dogs that can hit speeds of 12 miles per hour in 3 seconds.

They are bred to have a ‘soft mouth.’ A well-trained lab can carry an egg in its mouth

without breaking it.

4. Labs are energetic dogs who love life, have a great ability to learn, and are eager to

please their owners. Labradors are expressive dogs; and it is probable that they express

gratitude by licking the hands which pet them.

5. What else can you learn about Labradors?

PONDER

1. How can you liken the Labrador to

gratitude?

2. Labs are expressive dogs and it is probable

that they express gratitude by licking the

hands which pet them. How can you express

gratitude?

3. Labradors are bred to have a ‘soft mouth.’ How can you relate this to gratitude?

4. Labs are very energetic dogs and can reach speeds of 12 miles per hour in 3 seconds.

How does being grateful affect you physically?

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Grati the Dog

All things work together, all things work together, all things work together for good!

With a positive attitude, an attitude of gratitude, all things work together for good.


No matter what people say to you, no matter what others choose to do,

No matter what happens around you, be grateful it's all for your good.

Gratitude is a boost in your energy and it's the grand doorway to love.

With it you'll be rejoicing abundantly. Be grateful it's all for your good.

All things work together, all things work together, all things work together for good.



Gratitude will bring clarity to your mission, your purpose, and your work.

Best of all, it brings love and contentment; be grateful it's all for your good.

Gratitude makes everything beautiful, and it transforms light to miracles.

With it you'll be rejoicing abundantly. Be grateful it's all for your good.



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“When it comes to life, the

critical thing is whether you

take things for granted or

take them with gratitude.”

~GK Chesterton

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“Gratitude is the doorway

to love and a life of well-

being! We are better able to

withstand all of life’s

challenges with a positive

attitude of gratitude.” ~Roger Anthony

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“Gratitude is not only the

greatest of virtues, but the

parent of all the others.” ~Cicero

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GRATI CROSSWORD

1

2

3

4

5

6

Across

2. All things work together for _____.

4. And it's the grand doorway to _____.

5. Gratitude makes everything ______.

6. Gratitude is a boost in your ____.

Down

1. With a positive ________, an attitude of gratitude.

2. Be ______ it's all for your good.

3. Gratitude will bring ______ to your mission, your purpose and your work.

5. With it you'll see you're _____ so abundantly.


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GRATI WORD SEARCH

H F R T N J K L I O O L J

G K M P K Y T I R A L C J

R J T O J Q S I S C T V H

A G G S G W A T J V G R J

T D X I B E X A K N E S E

I R V T D S V R H M A C D

T E N I R I I G R U E G U

U P N V C K H P E D O G T

D H E E A Y A S D Y D H I

E B Q U R J X F D R Z B T

D C E I E G C V R O V X T

H L O V E F Y N Y J O S A

M X A L X Z C B U H L G K

GRATI POSITIVE DOG GOOD GRATITUDE LOVE ATTITUDE ENERGY CLARITY

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Ensuot the Otter


ANIMAL FACTS

1. Sea otters weigh between 50-100 lbs and have wide webbed

feet which help them effectively swim in the water, but make

it awkward to walk on land.

2. These sea mammals live in salt water and almost never leave

the water. Some of the sea otters’ favorite foods are urchins,

octopus, crabs, starfish, snails, and clams which they eat off

their belly as they float on their backs.

3. Sea otters will hold hands while sleeping to keep

themselves from drifting away. A group of sea otters resting

together is called a raft. These clever animals will also use long strands of kelp from the

ocean floor to anchor themselves in place so they do not drift into the deep ocean water

while resting.

4. Unlike other sea mammals, otters do not have blubber. Instead, they claim the prize as the

hairiest mammal on earth. They have two layers of fur, a thick undercoat and then long

strands of fur on the top. Air gets trapped between the skin and layers of fur that keeps

them warm, dry, and buoyant.

5. New born pups have so much air trapped between their skin and fur they cannot sink or

dive. A mother otter will tie her young to strands of kelp to keep them in place while she

hunts.

6. What else can you learn about sea otters?

PONDER

1. How can you liken the sea otter to encouraging and supporting others?

2. Sea otters will hold hands while sleeping to keep from drifting away. How can you liken

this to Ensuot? What events, trials, or other things do members in your family have

going on in their life? How can you show encouragement and support?

3. Sea otters will use long strands of kelp to anchor themselves in place. How can you liken

this to Ensuot? How does service anchor you and help you become who you really are?

4. A mother otter will tie her pup to long strands of kelp to keep him safe while she hunts.

How can you show love and service to others?

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Ensuot the Otter

Who is Ensuot? Who is Ensuot?

The otter with the attitude of service in his heart.

He loves to do his part, supporting and encouraging

Without a second thought. That is Ensuot.

When you live always to give,

You lift and strengthen, bringing hope.

Find a way to love and serve each day,

Abounding in the flow.

Be like Ensuot! Be like Ensuot!

Encourage and support others. Come on take a shot;

Give it all you've got. You'll find that selfless service

Pays in ways you've never thought, just like Ensuot.

When you live always to give,

You lift and strengthen, bringing hope.

Find a way to love and serve each day,

Abounding in the flow.

He is Ensuot! He is Ensuot!

The otter with the attitude of service in his heart.

Let's help him make a start.

When all you see is family,

You'll know you've found his heart.

That is Ensuot!

Thank you, Ensuot!

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“You can make more friends

in two months by becoming

really interested in other

people than you can in two

years trying to get other

people interested in you.” ~ Dale Carnegie

78

“Reach out in

encouragement and support

others. Be on the lookout for

ways to serve others, to lift

and strengthen.” ~ Roger Anthony

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"No one is useless in this

world who lightens the

burdens of another." ~ Charles Dickens

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"It is the true duty of every

man to promote the

happiness of his fellow

creatures to the utmost of his

power." ~ William Wilberforce

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ENSUOT CROSSWORD

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Across

3. He loves to do his part, supporting and _______.

5. Encourage and support others, come on take a _____,

6. The _____ with the attitude of service in his heart.

7. When you live always to _____, you lift and strengthen bringing hope.

Down

1. When all you see is family, you'll know you've found his _____.

2. Be like Ensuot! Be like ______!

4. Abounding in the _____.

5. Find a way to love and _____ each day.


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ENSUOT WORD SEARCH

E A H E A R T S D M X D A

D E D F X S E R V I C E R

S D F C G N T J C N E O E

F A J N V X W L B V N L J

C T J H E F R O H X S G Y

B T H G P H D V N R U H J

E I T U D G T E J W O B H

T T G K R S B G T R T D T

G U V M S G H H N J A X R

G D U M E P O H P E X D G

J E T U N B O L S G R C B

N S U O O T T E R E S T J

L A H P U T D R W C V B S

ENSUOT LOVE

OTTER ATTITUDE

HEART HOPE

SERVICE STRENGTHEN

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Cobamu the Sea Turtle Comes Back Multiplied

ANIMAL FACTS

1. Sea turtles have been around since the age of the dinosaurs. The sea

turtles’ shell (or “carapace”) is designed to protect them from their natural

predators and to glide through water with ease. Unlike other turtles, sea

turtles cannot retract their legs and head into their shells.

2. The champion of sea turtles is the enormous leatherback, which can grow

up to seven feet (two meters) long and weigh more than 2,000 pounds

(900 kilograms)! Leatherbacks are capable of diving deeper than any

other turtle and withstanding the coldest water temperatures. They are

known to travel up to 10,000 miles a year.

3. The actual sea turtle lifespan is not known for certain. Most estimates put it between 50-80 years

with many scientists acknowledging that some species can live over a century.

4. A long lifespan provides more opportunities to procreate. Sea turtles spend their entire lives at

sea, except when adult females come ashore to lay eggs every two to three years. Female sea

turtles return to the same nesting grounds where they were born and will lay up to 150 eggs in a

season.

5. After about 60 days, baby sea turtles (known as “hatchlings”) emerge from their sandy nests and

scuttle as fast as they can to the ocean. This is a very dangerous time for them as they are

particularly vulnerable until their shell hardens. The gender of each turtle depends on how hot

or cold their environment was while they were in their eggs. Warm temperatures tend to

produce more female hatchlings, whereas cooler temperatures result in males.

6. What else can you learn about sea turtles?

PONDER

1. How can you liken the sea turtle’s story to the Law of the Harvest (i.e. whatever we give out

comes back multiplied, whether positive or negative)?

2. Sea turtles have survived since the days of the dinosaur! Does their survival have something to do

with Cobamu? How?

3. Out of thousands of possible beaches, female sea turtles return to the same nesting grounds where

they were born to lay their eggs. Why is this significant? What does this have to do with Cobamu

(comes back multiplied) and you?

4. Despite the incredible dangers they face in their lifetime, sea turtles still manage to survive and

even thrive. How does this parallel your individual mission and how you will contribute in your

life?

http://www.onr.navy.mil/focus/ocean/life/turtle3.htm

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Cobamu the Turtle

Cobamu, the mother sea turtle,

Represents all things both big and little.

What you choose to be and do returns in life.

You choose good or bad, joy or strife

And it comes back multiplied. Now you can identify

The law of the harvest: you'll reap what you sow

It comes back multiplied, whether you laugh or cry,

The law of the harvest when you need it most.

I do only what would be the things I'd like done to me.

Just ask every word I breathe; it's only what I'd like received.


The law of the harvest: you’ll reap what you sow.

It comes back multiplied whether you laugh or cry

The law of the harvest when you need it most.


The law of the harvest: you reap what you sow.

It comes back multiplied, whether you laugh or cry,

The law of the harvest when you need it most!

The law of the harvest when you need it most!

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“The heart that gives,

gathers.”

~Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching

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"Plant seeds of happiness,

hope, success and love; it

will all come back to you in

abundance. This is the law

of nature."

~Steve Maraboli

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“The Law of the Harvest:

We reap what we sow!

Whatever we give out comes

back multiplied, whether it is

positive or negative.”

~Roger Anthony

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COBAMU CROSSWORD

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Across

3. You choose good or bad, ____ or strife.

4. It comes back multiplied whether you _____ or cry.

6. What you choose to be and do _____ in life.

7. Just ask every word I breathe; it's only what I'd ____ received.

Down

1. Cobamu, the mother sea turtle represents all things both ____ and little.

2. And it ______ back multiplied.

5. Law of the _____ : you'll reap what you sow.

7. The ____ of the harvest when you need it most!


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COBAMU WORD SEARCH

R B C H O O S E J I K L G

E C J S F G R W R S X S F

D M H R M E L T R U T O E

S U B E N G D T U V U W S

C L J T H P C R Y C J D D

G T H U R O O W J X L S F

G I T R S W B S P A E R G

N P H N R E A C E S T G D

J L T S W L M X A A U J K

U I R T C J U B D W A L H

Y E W R X D J G F R K B N

K D E F I T S E V R A H F

F A D G U V O S E H J U Y

COMBAU RETURN

TURTLE REAP

MULTIPLIED SOW

HARVEST

CHOOSE

LAW

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Faiho the Dove Faith and Hope

ANIMAL FACTS

1. Doves and pigeons belong to the same family, Columbidae, and have

many similar features. Their ability to find their way home over hundreds,

even thousands, of miles is unsurpassed in the animal kingdom.

2. The long, pointed wings and tail of the mourning dove enable these birds

to fly fast. Mourning doves have been clocked at 55 mph!

3. Doves can adapt to almost any environment. The only places in the world

they are not found are in places of extreme conditions such as deserts and

the Antarctic.

4. Doves mate for life. Beginning as early as 7 months old, female doves can begin breeding.

Females almost always lay two eggs at a time.

5. Eggs are typically laid 8-12 days after mating. The incubation period is only 18 days before the

eggs will hatch. Such a short gestation period means a pair of doves can have up to 9 broods a

year.

6. When baby doves are born, both the male and female adults secrete a cottage cheese type milk

called “crop milk” to feed them for the first 3 days of their life.

7. What else can you learn about doves?

PONDER

1. Doves can adapt themselves to almost any environment. How does faith and hope play a vital role

in our happiness, especially when we find ourselves in unfamiliar and even hostile

circumstances?

2. Doves mate for life and both take care of their young. Why is it important for both faith and hope

to work together? How can you strengthen your collective faith and hope in your family unit?

3. Doves have a way to save their food for later nourishment. How can we be sure to have a reserve

of faith and hope when we are faced with difficult situations and need their strength?

4. Doves and pigeons belong to the same family and have many similar features. Over 100,000

pigeons played a vital role in World War I. Their strength was not only their homing abilities, but

their speed. This speed made it nearly impossible for enemy marksmen to shoot them down,

giving the homing pigeons a 95% success rate! Possibly the only effective countermeasure for the

enemy was to release birds of prey to hunt the pigeons down. What are some things that can pull

us down and cause us to lose our hope and our faith? What do we do about them and how can we

safeguard ourselves against them?

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Faiho the Dove

Faiho, Faiho, Faiho, Faiho, Faiho, Faiho, Faiho, Faiho

Can you not see on the horizon, no matter how dark the present night,

Though a far off, she's still coming. Can your eye discern her light?

Here she comes across the seas, with bright power in her wake,

Faith and hope and will to believe when each battle is at stake.

Faiho, Faiho, Faiho, Faiho, Faiho, Faiho, Faiho, Faiho

Be strong enough to heed her beckon.

Take courage now and yield her weapons in defense of what is great, good, and true.

She brings the most important glory; you'll need her strength to complete your story.

She's faith and hope, and will bring peace to you.

She's faith and hope, and will bring peace to you.

Faiho, Faiho, Faiho, Faiho

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"Hope is the thing with

feathers that perches in the

soul. And sings the tune

without the words and never

stops at all."

~Emily Dickinson

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“Faith and Hope are the

master principles of

continuous achievement.

They continually spur us on,

lighting the way even in our

darkest hours. They increase

our capacity to endure and

overcome.”

~Roger Anthony

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"Faith is like radar

that sees through the

fog." ~Corrie Ten Boom

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“Be like the bird who,

pausing in her flight

awhile on boughs too

slight, feels them give

way beneath her, and

yet sings, knowing she

hath wings.” ~ Victor Hugo

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FAIHO CROSSWORD

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

Across

3. Here she comes across the seas, with bright _____ in her wake.

4. Be strong enough to hear her ______.

7. She brings the most important glory; you'll need her ____ to complete your story.

Down

1. Take courage now and yield her weapons in defense of what is great, good, and ____.

2. Can you not see on the horizon no matter how dark the ______ night?

4. Faith and hope and will to believe when each ____ is at stake.

5. Though a far off, she's still _____.

6. Can your eye discern her _____?

*Hint: The answers can be found in the song and animal facts. If you need additional help refer to the word bank at the end of the Appendix.

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FAIHO WORD SEARCH

D R W R T P E A C E B D G

H G O H K H G F F C C S U

V T L M J G V D C W F T Y

D Y U O G S S O X E S R T

G G S S R F X V B T A U E

N N P F S Y Z E N D E E R

M N T X A H T I A F D G Y

J B H V G D O E O G X H G

Y C G H C E G A R U O C V

R R I R V R P A U T P F B

E W L W N Y H D P Y J S R

S R O R M H N O H I A F F

F T H O P E C Z K J S A E

FAIHO GLORY

DOVE PEACE

LIGHT HOPE

COURAGE FAITH

TRUE

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ENSUOT CROSSWORD

Word Bank

Ensuot Encouraging

Heart Shot

Serve Flow

Otter Give

COBAMU CROSSWORD

Word Bank

Big Laugh

Comes Joy

Returns Like

Law Harvest

GRATI CROSSWORD

Word Bank

Clarity Grateful

Good Love

Attitude Beautiful

Energy Blessed

ABUA CROSSWORD

WORD BANK

Tidings Share

Warriors Aware

Creation Abundantly

Steadfast Spare

FAIHO CROSSWORD

Word Bank

True Beckon

Coming Light

Battle Present

Strength Power

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