Anime Lectio: My Happy Marriage Seasons One and Two

                                                             1. Why do Anime Lectio? 

Anime Lectio is a time for us to stop and take a breath. Between work, activities, family life, and social media, our minds are always moving. We rarely take time to contemplate and ask, why am I watching this anime? What’s the point of all this? And, how is this making me feel? 


2. Put away all distractions 

(phones, work, etc.)

We are so enslaved to things that stimulate our minds. Let this be a moment for us to free our minds, look inside of ourselves, and be at peace.


3. Deep Breathing

Take several deep breaths. Let your mind relax. If you’ve had any questions, desires, or struggles that you’ve been hiding or stuffing away, let them rise up to the surface. 


4. Open yourself to God’s Presence

Remember God places all our thoughts and desires inside of us, and He uses them to draw us closer to Himself. God gives us a community to help us understand who we are and what He is calling us to do. The faces of other people you know and don't know are like signs of God’s presence.  


5. Think About What’s on Your Mind in Relation to the Anime

Think about what’s been on your mind in relation to the anime.  The following is an example of such thoughts written by me. 


We all have gifts.  They may not be the ones that others have, and may also show up at different times, but we all have at least one in order to not only help ourselves, but others as well, which is what should happen.  What also should happen is not treating people worse than others because of this.  Keeping the idea of everyone has at least one gift in mind should help in preventing this mistreatment.  An example of this can be seen in the first two seasons of the anime series My Happy Marriage.


6. Brief and written explanation of the anime

Pay attention to how the brief and written explanation of the anime seen on this blog, or seeing the anime for yourself since that's better than any explanation, might “speak” to you or shed light on the things that have been on your minds.


The anime series My Happy Marriage starts off with a family that treats their oldest daughter as one of their servants because she was the child of her father's first wife, while their other daughter is treated better since she is the child of her father's current wife. This treatment is also based on the fact that while the other daughter possesses a supernatural gift, the older daughter doesn't. Despite this, the older daughter is sent off to marry a powerful supernatural gift user, who warms up to her over time, while the other daughter ends up in a marriage arrangement with her older sister's friend, who tries to help the oldest daughter when her family still mistreats her. The older daughter also eventually learns that she does possess a supernatural gift, but it's different from the one her sister has, which lets her help her fiancée in other ways besides working around the house and is also seen more in season two.


7.  Reflect on the anime

Has this brief and written explanation of the anime shed any light on what's been on your minds?  The following is an example of a reflection on the anime from me.


The idea of gifts seen in the anime series My Happy Marriage makes it seem that gifts are based on what you get from your parents. While this can be true, it's only part of what gifts are or can be. Gifts can also be things that people are good at based on their own experiences, like being good at helping around the house in order to help others that you live with, which the oldest daughter in her family learned by being treated as one of the servants for her family. Learning also helps you with your gifts, as well as learn new ones, which the oldest daughter also does in order to know what to do in certain situations, like ones that involve etiquette and how to use her supernatural gift based on what it is. With this learning comes understanding and what can also help with this understanding is praying about it.


8. Final Prayer

Please voice any prayer intentions for friends, family, or people around the world that relate to this anime.  The following is an example written by me.


Let us pray that we can understand the gift, or gifts, that we have, as well as the gift, or gifts, of others.

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