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Because I value the time Christ has given me, I choose to use my time wisely.

 

How To Use My Time Wisely

Good Recreation

God wants my recreation to be safe and healthy. It is a time for mental, spiritual, social, and physical refreshment. God wants me to do my best but to avoid rivalry.

 

I choose to use my time in recreation that renews my body, mind, and spirit.

 

Definition

Good Recreation means: Doing pleasant things as a break from work and responsibilities that renews my body and spirit. Playing games with friends, doing a favorite hobby, reading a good book or magazine, activities that build up my body with joy taking care not to let the activitiy become more important than the benefit by trying to win at the cost of friendship, safety or health or other negative factors. Doing things that are different as a change from what you have been doing as part of your school, work or home responsibilities as a rest and renewing time.

 
Artwork Music

See flipchart

 

 

O Master, let me walk, SDAH, 574
Onward Christian soldiers, SDAH, 612
Jacob's Ladder, SDAH, 627
Anywhere with Jesus, SDAH, 508

Student Life Applications

Because God knows that I need a break from work and study to be recreated, I will:

Take some time for joyful fun that gives me a physical, mental, and social experience.

Avoid games that will make me unhappy with other players.
Avoid games that are rough and may cause people to get hurt.
Choose activities that don't emphasize winner and heroes but each person doing their best.
Find recreation that gives me good exercise and makes me feel happy.
Play games that don't make some people feel bad because they can't play it good.
Praise good sportsmanship and good plays for everyone, even those who are on the other side.
 

Bible, E.G. White

Ecclesiastes 3:1 There is time for everything.

"Children's best recreation is amid surroundings of nature." Ed 211-212
Recreation in which Christ can be taken are perfectly safe." AH 513

Reinforcing Stories

"Birches" by Robert Frost, "Metalogue: About Games and Being Serious" by Gregory Bateson, A Call to Character, edited by Colin Greer & Herbert Kohl, HaperCollins, 1995.
"Simmy and Shin Kicker", Book Four, The Children's Hour by Arthur Maxwell
"Funnies, Movies, and Reform School", Treasury of Devotional Aids for Home and School

Student Activities

Play anyone of many games but use a variety, e.g. pencil and paper games, out-door games, relays, games with balls, guessing games, running games, jumping rope games, tag games, thinking games, treasure hunts, etc.
 

Links to the Curriculum
Home Economics: Families can have group recreation to unify and for growth.
Math: Balanced equations remind us to balance our time.
PE: Recreation is only part of life, find the recreation that is best for you.
 

Resources


A Call to Character, edited by Colin Greer & Herbert Kohl, HaperCollins, 1995
The Chilren's Hour by Arthur S. Maxwell. R&H. 1945
Treaury of Devotional Aids for Home and School by Department of Education of General Conference of SDA. 1951

Evaluation

Primary:
Tell or write about a time when you saw someone doing good recreation.
How do you think God feels when He sees people who are doing good recreation.
How do you feel when you are doing good recreation. ?
Tell two ways that you can do good recreation.
What makes you want to do good recreation. ?
What is the opposite of doing good recreation. ? Who makes us act that way?
Finish the sentence: We can do good recreation. when we..........

Middle:
Why does God care if I do good recreation ?
What difference does it make whether I do good recreation or not?
What effect would it have on my future if I did not choose to do good recreation.?
How would people treat me differently if I did or didn’t choose to do good recreation?
How would I feel about myself if I did or did not choose to do good recreation?
What makes choosing to do good recreation better than t he opposite?
Give some reasons why you think it is best to do good recreation.
List some ways that a person might do good recreation without anyone noticing?
Is it possible for a person to get better at do good recreation.? Explain.
Can you think of someone who seems good at do good recreation.? What makes them better at it?
How could you learn to be better at do good recreation.?
How often do you do good recreation? Think of the last three times and tell me.
Do you like to join in when people are doing good recreation.? How have you joined in?

High school:
Would you practice doing good recreation. if no one was checking on you? Your parents, school, or the law?
What is the alternative to doing good recreation. and what do you see as the results of that choice?
Would you keep quiet if someone paid you a lot of money not to do good recreation.
Are you proud to do good recreation. and willing to tell others how you feel?
If someone in a group spoke out against doing good recreation would you speak up to give the other side?
Are you willing to put some money toward supporting good recreation in your city, class, work?
Can you say that doing good recreation has become a habit? How often are you that way?
What effect do you think doing good recreation will have on your future life?
Do you see your family practicing good recreation others? How about your church, city, or nation?
What do you think should be done to promote good recreation in your family, friends, church, city, nation?
Does it make much difference if they are doing good recreation or not?