The Next Right Thing by Emily P. Freeman

Week 13: Review & Reflection — Looking Back Across the Journey

Review your notes and journal entries from the entire book, The Next Right Thing by Emily P. Freeman.

This final week is a chance to look back across the whole journey — not to perform a summary, but to notice what has genuinely shifted in you, and to carry those shifts forward intentionally.

Discussion Questions

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1.Looking back across all eleven chapters, which single practice or idea has had the most impact on you? What was it about that concept — its timing, its precision, its challenge — that made it land so deeply?

2.Freeman's central thesis is that wise decision-making flows from a healthy soul, not from a better method. How has your understanding of the relationship between soul health and decision-making changed over the course of this study?

3.Think back to the decision, season, or area of life that brought you to this book. How do you see it differently now? Have you taken any next right steps during the weeks of this study?

4.Which of the practices Freeman offers — becoming a student of yourself, naming your arrows, considering your constraints, building a rule of life, tending to your soul, seeking community, allowing the fog — do you most want to continue building into your life? What would that look like practically?

5.Freeman's book invites a quieter, slower, more attentive way of living. Has anything in your daily schedule, habits, or rhythms actually changed as a result of engaging this material? If so, what? If not, what would need to change?

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Closing Prayer

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Lord, we are grateful. Grateful for the weeks spent slowing down, paying attention, and practicing the small faithful steps. We do not leave this study with a perfect plan — we leave it with a quieter soul and a little more trust. Take what has grown in us during these weeks and tend it carefully. Help us keep practicing: being with you as we are, paying attention to right now, naming our arrows, considering our constraints, tending our souls, seeking community, and walking through the fog with faith. And when we are overwhelmed and don't know what to do next — remind us: just do the next right thing in love. That is enough. You are enough. Amen.

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