Change
Questions

1. Consider telling a brief story about a significant change at any point in your life that was completely unexpected. Describe how you responded to it.

2. Consider telling a brief story about a significant change in your life that you purposefully created. What did you lose and what did you gain in the process?

Did the change bring you the gifts and challenges you hoped for?

3. Do you usually avoid change or embrace it? It is possible to be “addicted” to change, to the adrenalin rush of leaving frustrations behind and stepping out into the unknown.

4. Have you ever functioned as an “agent of change” in a system such as a family, a congregation, a workplace, or some other community? Tell us a story about that.

5. As you look back on some of the biggest changes in your life, what can you say you learned about yourself in the process? What help and support was most effective for you as you made your way through times of change?

6. In any of these change circumstances - Was there a message or lesson in the experience that nourished you spiritually?