{"id":5876,"date":"2014-02-25T09:59:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-25T08:59:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/?page_id=5876"},"modified":"2014-03-31T10:27:05","modified_gmt":"2014-03-31T09:27:05","slug":"pupil-inspiration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/pupil-inspiration\/","title":{"rendered":"Pupil Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jean Vanier <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Jean Vanier took as his inspiration the biblical passage from the Beatitudes that declares that the poor are \u201cblessed.\u201d L&#8217;Arche believes that every person is blessed with important gifts to offer to others and that we are called to create a society in which each one&#8217;s gifts can be given and recognized. L&#8217;Arche communities reflect the cultural and religious make-up of the locales where they were founded. Thus, while in France L&#8217;Arche drew largely from a Roman Catholic population, Canadian community have welcomed people of various Christian denominations and also sometimes people of Jewish, Muslim or other faiths as well as people with no faith affiliation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.larche.ca\/en\/multimedia\/jean_vanier\/3d_dialogue_jean_vanier_and_larche\">Jean Vanier and L&#8217;Arche<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.larche.ca\/en\/multimedia\/jean_vanier\/jean_vanier_a_man_and_his_vision\">Jean Vanier: A Man and his Vision<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.larche.ca\/en\/multimedia\/jean_vanier\/jean_vanier_our_need_to_belong\">Jean Vanier:\u00a0 Our Need to Belong<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jean-vanier.org\/en\/his_message\/jean_vanier_on_becoming_human\">Jean Vanier: Becoming Human<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.larchefoundation.ca\/en\/news\/jean_vanier_and_larche_friends_meet_pope_francis\">Jean Vanier and L&#8217;Arche Friends Meet Pope Francis<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Exploring Joy <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ancient religion and modern science affirm that joy and happiness come from the practice of gratitude, the presence of hope, the acceptance of challenge and suffering, being loved, living with authenticity, the practice of kindness to oneself and others and embracing one\u2019s own vulnerability and sufficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Watch Bren\u00e9 Brown in The Power of Vulnerability as she explores the roots of joy (20 minutes)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ted.com\/talks\/brene_brown_on_vulnerability.html\">Power of Vulnerability<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Which of these quotes resonate with you? Which challenge you?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn time of care and sorrow, keep a fountain of joy alive in you.\u201d Dietrich Bonhofer<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJoy can be real only if people look upon their life as a service, and have a definite object in life outside themselves and their personal happiness.\u201d Leo Tolstoy<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur need is not for pleasure but for joy &#8211; a deep sense of fulfilment that not only never leaves us but actually increases with the passage of time. Fun is living for ourselves; joy comes from living for others, giving our time and love to a purpose greater than ourselves.\u201d &#8211; Eknath Easwaran<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inspiration from Sport<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6094\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/pupil-inspiration\/attachment\/054\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6094\" title=\"Michael Jordan\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/files\/2014\/02\/054.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jean Vanier Jean Vanier took as his inspiration the biblical passage from the Beatitudes that declares that the poor are \u201cblessed.\u201d L&#8217;Arche believes that every person is blessed with important gifts to<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/pupil-inspiration\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":825,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5876","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/825"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5876"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5876\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5878,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5876\/revisions\/5878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.glowscotland.org.uk\/er\/StNinians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}