I Want to Trust You, but I Don't by Lysa TerKeurst
Week 12: Chapter 11 — Moving Forward Without Pretending
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Moving forward doesn't mean pretending the hurt didn't happen or that everything is fine — it means finding a way to walk into the future with honesty and with hope held together.
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Lysa draws a distinction between moving on (which can mean denying or minimizing the pain) and moving forward (which means carrying what happened while still stepping ahead). How is that distinction meaningful to you personally?
2.She addresses the pressure many people feel — from others or from themselves — to "just get over it" or to demonstrate healing on a timeline that feels foreign to their actual experience. Have you felt that pressure? Where did it come from?
3.The chapter explores what it looks like to hold grief and hope simultaneously — to be honest about loss while still believing in a future worth stepping into. Is that a posture you're currently able to inhabit? What makes it hard?
a.What are you still grieving, specifically? Have you allowed yourself to name and feel that, or have you mostly been trying to push past it?
b.What does genuine hope — not denial, but actual expectation of good — look like in your situation?
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