Suggested Journal Prompts
Nature as Teacher
- Find a beautiful spot somewhere within a five minute walk of where you are. Turn your phone off, sit down, and just pay attention to what’s happening around you - what you see, hear, taste, and touch.
- After you’ve paid attention for about ten minutes, write down in list form what you’ve particularly noticed. When your list feels relatively complete, put down your pen and take a few deep breaths.
- Pick up your list again and note which observations particularly strike you. What are they trying to teach you about God and about your own life?
Unlocking Possibility in a Quiet Spot
- Permit yourself a moment to dream about the future you hope for. Focus that dreaming upon something local and perhaps quite small: your neighborhood, your family, your work, your land.
- What do you dream could be possible in five years? Don’t write a list. Write a story or a description or a day-in-the-life; make sure to include imagined conversations, sights or smells or sounds.
- Consider: what is one small step I could take in the next week to make that dream a reality?
