Dec. 16 - "Luggage" (segment 007)

Discussion guide questions:

• What kind of wounds do you have?
• How have your wounds shaped who you are today?

Rob is sitting in an airport, watching the planes come in. In a different part of the airport, a woman has just gotten off a plane.

Don't insist on getting even; that's not for you to do. "I'll do the judging," says God. "I'll take care of it." - Romans 12:19 (MSG)

• Have you ever really gotten revenge?
• If so, how did it make you feel afterwards?
• If we take revenge when we get hurt, do you think it's like saying to God, "I think I can handle this better than you"?

The Lord sees everything, whether good or bad. - Proverbs 15:3 (CEV)

• If God's right there when people get hurt, why do you think He doesn't step in to stop it from happening?
• Do you trust that God is ultimately going to take care of everything?
• Why is God's forgiveness of us so crucial to our forgiveness of others?

The traveler continues her way through the airport terminal. Rob says, "Sometimes forgiving is remembering and some people are going to keep returning to their vomit, and we don't have to be there when they do."

• Can we forgive somebody without being able to be around them?
• Do you have people like that in your life?
• Do you believe forgiveness is really more about the one forgiving than the one being forgiven?
• Does that view on forgiveness make it easier to forgive?

Do not judge, and you will not be judged. Do not condemn, and you will not be condemned. Forgive, and you will be forgiven. - Luke 6:37 (NIV)

The woman walks into the parking lot and puts her luggage in her car's trunk. Rob, still at the airport window, says, "Forgiving is an action, it's something you do."

• Are there people you need to forgive?
• If someone you need to forgive died before you made amends, what kinds of regrets would you have?

The woman drives to the parking lot attendant, pays her bill, and drives three feet.

Class discussion: imagining forgiving Hitler and those like him, the consequences of revenge, the fleeting satisfaction of revenge, if it's possible to forgive someone but not wish them well, the ease/difficulty of forgiving someone once they're dead, whether people who've you've forgiven care about that.

Action items for the week:

• Forgive someone.
• Ask for forgiveness.
• If there's a wound holding you back, decide on one step you can take towards healing.
• Learn basic first aid, such as training from the Red Cross.

Video note: at the last second before filming the final scene, the stunt driver in the car called on her radio, asking Rob to come and pray over her.