- Wisdom 7: 7-11
- Psalms 90: 12-13, 14-15, 16-17
- Hebrews 4: 12-13
- Mark 10: 17-30
- What is it that you desire
- Indecision is a terrible thing. Sometimes, the pain of it is enough to make us do something rash just to get the decision process over with.
- How do you think that Jesus made decisions?
- Do you think that he had a process?
- Do you have anyone in your life that you can go to for better perspective on your decisions?
- How do such people supplement your prayer life?
- No regrets
- None of us wants to die with regrets. We want to check off every item on our "bucket list" before we go.
- What do you think contributes to a "regret free" life?
- Have you ever learned to be thankful for a decision that you once regretted, or something that was hard to bear at the time?
- How did that process happen?
- Is it possible to help that process along?
- Looking at life from both sides
- It's almost universal that we wish that we had a better memory for things, but be careful what you wish for. I believe that at judgement day we will have perfect recall of our entire life.
- We are never going to know everything about the decisions that we make, so how do you know when you have thought about something long enough?
- How do you know when your own desires are helping you, or hindering you from making a good decision?
- What really makes a good decision anyway?
- Disordered attachments
- In Ignatian spirituality, we are told to avoid getting so attached to anything that it begins to distract us from our primary mission in life.
- What are you attached to?
- How do you tell when that attachment has become too strong?
- How would you go about breaking that attachment?
- Preparation for Reconciliation:
- What do I truly desire? What am I willing to give up for that?
- What am I thankful for this year that I could not have been thankful for earlier in my life?
- How am I learning to follow Jesus more closely?
- What in my life am I incapable of giving up?
Shalom!
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