The Next Right Thing by Emily P. Freeman
Week 11: Chapter 10 — Allow the Fog to Descend
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Some of the most important wisdom in this book arrives in one of its most unexpected invitations: what if the fog — the season of not knowing — is not a problem to be solved but a gift to be received?
Discussion Questions
7 questions1.Freeman uses the image of 'fog' to describe seasons of ambiguity, uncertainty, and not-knowing. What is your typical emotional response when you enter a foggy season? Fight, flee, freeze, or something else?
2.She challenges the assumption that clarity is always the goal — that sometimes God is doing something in us during the fog that could not happen in the clear. Can you look back on a foggy season and see what it produced in you that the clarity before or after could not?
3.Freeman writes about the temptation to force a decision just to end the discomfort of not knowing. Have you ever rushed a decision primarily to escape the fog rather than because clarity had genuinely arrived? What happened?