Breathing Under Water:
A Journey Towards Wholeness
Questions for Reflection
To finally surrender ourselves to healing, we need to have three spaces opened within us — and all at the same time: our opinionated head, our closed-down heart, and our defensive and defended body. That is the work of spirituality.
— Father Richard Rohr
Reflect on a time when you knew you needed to make a change but resisted it. What did it, or is it, costing you in terms of your physical and emotional health?
How much do you depend on your own strength and abilities to get through everyday struggles? How easy is it for you to ask others for help? When did you last ask God for help? Name at least one area where you feel like you might be reaching your limits.
How do you define a "Power greater than ourselves"? How does that definition help you find calm in the midst of chaos?
Are you more comfortable with acting or waiting? What happens if you approach a problem from a stance that is the opposite of the one you normally prefer?
How can taking a thorough moral inventory help you embrace your own brokenness rather than hide it?
How can practicing gratitude and radical acceptance help you take one positive step forward?
What keeps you from being entirely ready to let God take over?
In the recovery community, they talk about the danger of "stinking thinking." Can you share a time you recognized a harmful, ingrained thought pattern and challenged it?
Christians are called to embrace our brokenness rather than hide it. What does a "wounded healer" look like to you