Adolescence

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• Adolescence is not just a set period of time in our growth, but rather process that happens continually throughout our lives.

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• The idea of being good stewards of our pain means learning to carry and trade our pain without allowing to consume us.

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• Which etymology of "adolescence" do you think rings more true and why?

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• When did you first start "keeping score" in your own life? Give examples.

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• Do you agree with this idea? Can we truly experience joy without pain, the good without the bad?

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• What does Buechner believe to be the teacher's "job?" How have you seen this in your own life, or not?

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• Who first taught you how "to be a steward of your pain?"

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• How did you react to idea of "lachrymae rerum?" How do we live in the light of this truth?

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• Out of the two distinct ways Buechner theorizes we deal with our pain, burying it or letting it consume us, which do you identify with?

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• What does it look like to be a good steward of our pain? How do we live that out?