1. What is your own experience of journeys? Share about some that come to mind, and how they’ve shaped you.

How did you know there was a journey ahead? Or did you?  

Have you ever felt like you weren’t “not made for perilous quests?” When things seem perilous (physically or emotionally or both), do you tend more toward avoidance or diving right in? How has that worked for you in the past?

2. Marina taught today about the Coptic tradition surrounding the holy family’s flight to Egypt. One key feature is that, for Copts, the holy family’s flight is richly under twined with an understanding of journey as a path to consecration.

How does this strike you? Do you have journeys that you think have consecrated you? Or someplace you know? What have they been like? How have they been  different from other journeys? How have they been the same?

3. Marina listed a handful of the sites that are visited and revered for their part in the story of the holy family’s flight through Egypt. And the ways in which the faithful “yes” of Joseph, and of Mary, enabled lasting and powerful change for the world.

How possible does it feel that a treacherous journey on which you may be asked to go could result in positive powerful change for others? What about that idea makes you skeptical? What makes you hopeful?

When it comes to journey, Marina identified two key actions: saying yes, and taking that crucial first step. Do you have journeys into which you are being beckoned? What would it be like to take those two key actions? To simply say yes? To take that crucial first step? How do you feel about that possibility?