Journeying and Journaling with God
Weaving: Spiritual Mathematics
Note: At the end of each chapter of God’s Healing for Life’s Losses: How to Find Hope When You’re Hurting, I include two reflection/action sections. One is Your Journey and one is Your Journal. Today, I’m sharing a few sample Weaving Journey and Journal interactions to help you on your path of grief and growth—of finding God’s healing hope.
Your Weaving Journey
1. In weaving, you refuse to give in to despair and you choose to perceive life with grace eyes and grace math. Where would you rate yourself on a scale of 1-10, with 1 being doubting God’s good heart and despairing of hope, and 10 being entrusting your self to God’s larger purposes, good plans, and eternal perspective?
2. How could you look at your suffering not with rose-colored glasses, but with faith eyes, with Cross-eyes, with 20/20 spiritual vision—grace narratives and grace math?
Your Weaving Journal
1. God is all-powerful, holy, good, loving, and in control of everything. What impact do these characteristics of God have on you as you face your loss?
2. How could you apply Genesis 50:19-20 to your life? “Don’t be afraid. Am I in the place of God? You intended to harm me, but God intended it for good to accomplish what is now being done, the saving of many lives.”
3. What might God be up to in your suffering? How could He be weaving good out of the evil you are experiencing?
4. God’s story doesn’t obliterate your painful story, but it gives it meaning. What meaning could you find as you weave God’s story into yours?
Join the Conversation
Which of the interactions/questions/reflections most resonate with you?
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