When trouble hits someone in your community, how can you respond? This year, a wildfire has left many people in my community _________ with damaged homes. The community where I live is coming together to _________. How does each of us show our _________ for those who lost their homes?

Imagine a Circle of Care. _________ a circle and write the name of a person in _________ in the center. Draw _________ rings around the first one and write in the names of the people next closest to the crisis. _________ outwards. Distant friends and family are within _________ circles. The entire _________ itself becomes the outer ring. After the firestorm in Santiam Canyon, people posted __________ signs saying “Canyon Strong!” and sent supplies to resource centers.

When I am in the center of such a circle, I do not want to __________ someone who has not experienced my __________ say, “I know exactly how you feel.” Helping people closer to the center of the circle requires more listening than __________.

When you are in a closer ring and __________ someone in the center of the circle, you may __________ their burden and want to express your own feelings. Do it with those further out in the circle. I find this gives me __________ to continue helping those in rings smaller than my own.

Whenever you are in the circle of care, __________ what you are about to say and do. Sometimes it is possible to give physical aid. Sometimes the damage is __________ . Can you calm by __________ to go for a walk with them?__________ others and hold them dear.

There is a well-known story about a farmer_______found an eagle(鹰) egg. The story reminds us of the importance of developing our full potential(潜力).

One day, a professor entered the classroom and asked his students to prepare for a surprise test. They waited worriedly at their desks for the test to begin. The professor _________________ the question papers, with the paper facing down as usual. After he gave them all out, he asked his students to _________________ the paper and begin. To everyone's surprise, there were no _________________, just a black dot in the center of the page. The professor, seeing the _________________ on everyone's face, told them the following:

"I want you to write what you _________________ there."

The students got started on the inexplicable (费解的) task.

At the end of the class, the professor _________________ all the answer papers and started reading each one of them aloud in front of all the students. All of them, with no _________________, described the black dot, trying to explain its _________________ in the middle of the sheet, etc. After all had been _________________, the classroom was silent, and the professor began to __________________:

"I' m not going to grade this __________________wanted to give you something to think about. No one wrote about the __________________ part of the paper. Everyone focused on the black dot, and the same happens in our __________________. We have a white paper to observe, but we always focus on the dark spots. Our life is a __________________ given to us with love and care, and we always have__________________ to celebrate: nature renewing itself every day, our friends around us, the job that __________________ our livelihood and the miracles (奇迹) we see every day.

__________, we insist on focusing only on the dark spots: the health problems that worry us, the lack of money, the __________________ relationship with workmates, the __________________ with a friend, etc.

The dark spots are very __________________ compared to everything we have in our daily life, but they are the ones that pollute our minds.