{
  "lessonDate": "2026-09-18",
  "lessonNumber": 211,
  "lessonTitle": "The Parable of the Water — \"What Are We Missing?\"",
  "semester": "fall-2026-ot",
  "source": "Teacher-created. Follows Lesson 116 (Isaiah 11–12), which ends on Isaiah 12:3. Sends students to the year's theme page at lds-southern-seminary.com/theme and asks them to add to it. The manual holds lessons 1–208; teacher-created days are numbered from 209.",
  "scriptureBlock": "Isaiah 1–12",
  "bookName": "ISAIAH 12:3–4",
  "deckType": "virtual",
  "lessonObjective": "Have students read Isaiah 12:3–4 first, then read the whole theme page and bring back one real addition to it — a fifth issue, or a part of the gospel the page explains badly.",
  "doctrinePrinciple": "We climb to the water by faith and works, we draw it with joy, and then we praise Him by telling people where it is — and teaching it is how we find out whether we understand it.",
  "personalScriptureStudy": {
    "chapters": "Isaiah 12:3–4, before opening the page",
    "questions": "Isaiah 12:3 is a thing you do. Isaiah 12:4 is a thing you say. Everything on the theme page is one of those two."
  },
  "teacherNote": "VIRTUAL DAY — no class. Text the card image Thursday night and again at 6:30 AM Friday, WITH THE LINK IN THE MESSAGE so nobody has to type it: https://lds-southern-seminary.com/theme/ — the URL is printed on the card too, but a tappable link removes the only real friction in this assignment. INSIST ON THE ORDER: Isaiah 12:3–4 first, page second. It is two verses and it takes thirty seconds, and a student who reads the page cold just grades my writing, while a student who reads the verses first has something to measure it against. THE ASK IS GENUINE, not a comprehension check — the page currently names four issues (pride, judgment, not for me, another path) and I do not think that is all of them. Good answers I would half-expect: fear of what changes if it IS true; not believing the water is really there; having drunk once and gone thirsty again; nobody ever told them the station existed; being too busy to be thirsty. ANY of those is a real panel. Tell them plainly that what they send may end up on the site, because it might. This is panel three of the parable being done rather than discussed: they are being asked to declare it. What comes back is one addition plus a reason; that is Friday's attendance and journal entry. MONDAY IS LESSON 196, Missionary Preparation — open it by reading three or four of their additions aloud.",
  "cards": [
    {
      "card": 0,
      "layout": "virtual-assignment",
      "sectionName": "VIRTUAL FRIDAY",
      "tagline": "What are we missing?",
      "title": "THE PARABLE OF THE WATER",
      "subtitle": "Read. Think. Create. Send.",
      "readHead": "1. READ",
      "readList": [
        "Isaiah 12:3  —  draw the water with joy",
        "Isaiah 12:4  —  praise, and declare it",
        "Read these two BEFORE the page."
      ],
      "thinkHead": "2. THINK",
      "thinkText": "The page names four issues: pride, judgment, not for me, another path. I do not think that is all of them.",
      "createHead": "3. CREATE",
      "createText": "Read the whole theme page: lds-southern-seminary.com/theme — then find ONE thing to add. A new issue, or a part of the gospel we explain badly.",
      "sendHead": "4. SEND IT IN",
      "sendText": "Send me your one thing and why it matters. A new issue needs a name and the line the person says.",
      "scrollQuote": {
        "text": "Declare his doings among the people.",
        "attribution": "Isaiah 12:4"
      },
      "artPrompt": "A warm painterly golden-hour scene of a weathered wooden trail signpost on a desert hillside with several small carved signboards on it, and one fresh blank board being added to the bottom, wide sunlit desert and distant mountains beyond."
    }
  ],
  "journalPrompt": "Write Isaiah 12:3–4 out by hand under Friday. Then write the one thing you sent me — what is missing from the theme page — and why you think it belongs there."
}