Mr. Holland's Opus with Paul McDonald and Britt Mooney

Coming up on the Men at the Movies podcast, we get you ready to go back to school with Mr. Holland’s Opus. Life is what happens when you’re making other plans. We make plans, deciding that we have to accomplish something to call our life a success. We ask the wrong people if our work and our lives matter. But if we focus more on who we can connect to today and less on what we did not achieve, it’s the people who create the symphony of our lives. Join us as we discover God’s truth in this movie.

Questions

Who really knows you, your whole story?
What plans do you have?
How has life happened around the plans you’ve made?
Where have you been stuck, pointing the wrong way?
What dreams have you given up to take care of the life that is happening?
Where have you, like falling in love with John Coltrane, changed your approach over time?
What have you fallen in love with all over again?
How do you look at your current stage in life as a waste, or an obstacle to where you really want to go?
What does it mean to have a transactional relationship with someone? When have you done this?
What does a transformational relationship look like? Where have you experienced these?
Where do you have joy in your life?
If you knew you had a year left to live, how would your life change?
What’s the difference between happiness and joy?
What decisions/relationships are composing the symphony of your life?
Where do you feel like all your effort didn’t matter?
Where do you take your question of “Did it matter?”
Where do you feel like you’ve fallen short of what you wanted to accomplish?
What would it be like to list the things you have actually done and accomplished?

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Audio quotes performed by Britt Mooney, Paul McDonald, and Tim Willard, taken from Epic (written by John Eldredge) and Song of Albion (written by Stephen Lawhead).

Southerly Change performed by Zane Dickinson, used under license from Shutterstock

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