Week Three- day 1

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• Demonstrate through personal contact and active response, an invitational and outstretched hand to another who lives an alienated life.
• Offer only yourself, not money; find ways to be with someone in it, not just solve problems. 

• Pray and ask God for direction. 

• Look for ways you can participate in a local jail ministry. If you are able, join them.
• Frequent a local Latino neighborhood restaurant and make friends with the workers. 
• Offer your presence, and any kind of consistent connection with someone struggling in addiction.

Allow the compassion you experienced by initial engagement to “move” you, change your mindset, produce ongoing action, further spark your creativity into resistance initiatives:   

• Demonstrate ways that you are “with” this person and “against” whatever forces are causing isolation, poverty, or oppression in their lives.
• Engage your creativity toward continuity of relational and practical support.
• Share a meal with someone you've started a relationship with, stepping out beyond your own comfortable sphere. 

Consider emotional, invitational, and spiritual impacts of your intervention/interactions this week.  

• Read a suggested article or listen to a podcast found in the resource section provided.
• Make a follow-up visit to person(s) you initially made contact with.  
• Find out if there's something more you can do to alleviate their suffering.   
• Remember you are opening up to a relationship, allowing community to be created out of compassion. 
• Continue in the cultivation of an empathetic mindset.
  

• Continuation of relational solidarity. 
• Be a “good neighbor” to person/people you’ve connected with.
• Remain in contact and conversation, connecting to what causes them pain, and compassionately relate to it.
• Connect in some relational, supportive way.
• Participate in the continued, conscious action of inviting/freeing others. 
• Advocate for those who are labeled, misrepresented, and cast out.

Do this through invitational conversations, sharing what you’re learning about how to see “the other.” 

Rest is a holy gift. Make space for it.

Active, designated rest as a resolve toward worship and restorative wholeness. 

Spiritual disciplines: Prayer, fasting, meditation, visualization, mindfulness. 

Tap into resources provided for how to begin.  

• Throughout the day, meditate on Jesus' love and compassion while doing everyday things: eating, cooking, mowing, cleaning, exercising, etc.
• Cultivate a prayerful consciousness concerning the poor, developing an awareness of everything being spiritual- Find beauty within the mundane and the routine.
• Allow God’s presence to meet you in your intercession, your soul-repair, sorrow, and concern for the poor.