Week 2: Chapter 1 — Dust and Things That Feel Devastating

1.Lysa draws deeply on the image of dust throughout this chapter — the fact that God formed humanity from the dust of the ground. Why do you think she starts here, with our material fragility, rather than with our spiritual dignity?

2.She makes the point that when dust gets wet — when life's tears mix with our earthen nature — it doesn't ruin us; it makes us moldable, like clay in a potter's hands. Has there been a season in your life when you felt "wet dust" — broken open and strangely available to being reshaped? What happened?

3.Lysa describes the way she received devastating news and the instinct to resist falling apart. What messages have you absorbed — from family, church, or culture — about whether it is acceptable to fall apart? How have those messages helped or hurt you?