Get Ready

Hello there students! How are you doing? Are you busy preparing for the holidays? Oh! How I wish we are all be together in school to have our year end party as we used to do. Just one more week and off for vacation you go. But before we could enjoy the holidays, finish your module first so you can enjoy the sweet taste of vacation for rea. But before going to new lesson, let us first study the word of God. Title: Thankful

Key text is found in: James 1:17

“Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.”

In the book Living Life on Purpose, Greg Anderson shares the story of one man’s journey to joy: His wife had left him and he was completely depressed. He had lost faith in himself, in other people, in God-he found no joy in living. One rainy morning this man went to a small neighborhood restaurant for breakfast. Although several people were at the dinner, no one was speaking to anyone else, our miserable friend hunched over the counter, stirring his coffee with a spoon. In one of the small booths along the window was young mother with a little girl. They had just been served their food when the little girl broke the sad silence by almost shouting. “Mama, why don’t we say our prayers here?

The waitress who had just served their breakfast turned around and said, “Sure, honey, we pray here. Will you say the prayer for us?” and she turned and looked at the people in the restaurant and said, "“bow your heads.”

Surprisingly, one by one, the heads went down. The little girl then bowed her head, folded her hands, and said, “God is great. God is good, and we thank Him for our food. Amen.” Thea prayer changed the entire atmosphere. People began to talk with one another. The waitress said, “We should do that every morning.”

“All of a sudden,” said our friend, “my whole frame of mind started to improve. From that little girl’s example. I started to thank God for all that I did have and stop majoring in all that I didn’t have. I started to choose happiness.”

“It pays to “train up” our children, isn’t it?

Just a little girl changed the whole community. Don’t underestimate what anyone of us can do. For each one can make a difference if we use it for good.

Most Essential Learning Competency: By the end of this two-week lesson, you will be able to:

demonstrate a high level of understanding of the basic concepts of counseling through a group presentation of a situation in which practitioners of counseling work together to assist individuals, groups, or communities involved in difficult situations (e.g., post-disaster, court hearing about separation of celebrity couple, cyber bullying)

Performance indicator: Imagine yourself that you are a researcher, you are going to interview two adults about concepts on counseling.

Enabling Competencies: Foundation to accomplishing the MELCS, these competencies need to be learned. You have to:

1. Define counseling. HUMSS_DIASS12-Ia-2

2. Identify the goals and scope of counseling. HUMSS_DIASS12-Ib-5