Reflection Options  

Journal   (Reflect on one or more of these questions)

• Write about your best and worst roommate or apartment mate moments.  What contributed to them being in the category they were?  What was your part in the story?

• Describe the ideal community (living situation).  Does your ideal include the idea of how challenges should be encountered together? If not, add it to your description.

• How have you and your roommates decided to encourage one another spiritually? Write down some ways you would like to encourage your roommate(s) and then act one at least one of them.  Journal about how that affected your relationship with them.

Quote Interaction   (Agree, disagree or otherwise engage with the quote/quotes)

• I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.  (Martin Luther King, Jr.)

• Whatever a person may be like, we must still love them because we love God.  (John Calvin)

• When I am with a group of human beings committed to hanging in there through both the agony and the joy of community, I have a dim sense that I am participating in a phenomenon for which there is only one word...."glory."  (M. Scott Peck)

Reading & Reflection from the book, Shaping The Journey of Emerging Adults:​

• Read about Grant’s roommate situation (pp. 126-130).  How important do you think it is to have roommates that share your beliefs?  What challenges might be added or subtracted in having roommates who believe differently than you?  How can you safeguard against “spiritual erosion” whether your roommates share you beliefs or not.

• Read “The Christlife in Relationships” (pp. 150-152).  If you think of your roommate or apartment situation, do you see both a causal and a communal aspect? If one is missing, is there a way for you to reconnect everyone with the aspect that is missing?

• Read “Growing in Community” (pp. 162-163).  What response do you have to the image of Redwood trees when thinking about relationships with your roommates? What are your own assumptions about how “deep” your roots must be with others for the relationships to be supportive or meaningful?