The Next Right Thing by Emily P. Freeman

Week 6: Chapter 5 — Consider Your Constraints

Read Chapter 5 of The Next Right Thing by Emily P. Freeman.

Constraints — the limits of our time, energy, season, and circumstance — are often experienced as obstacles to the life we want, but Freeman reframes them as some of our most honest and faithful guides.

Discussion Questions

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1.Freeman argues that our constraints — the real, actual limits of our current season — are not obstacles to God's will but often pointers toward it. How does that reframe a constraint you are currently frustrated by?

2.She encourages readers to do an honest audit of their current capacity: time, energy, emotional bandwidth, financial resources, relational obligations. What does your honest audit reveal? Are you living within your actual constraints, or trying to operate beyond them?

3.Freeman talks about the difference between what we can do and what we should do — and that having the ability or even the opportunity to do something is not itself a calling. When have you said yes to something simply because you could, and later regretted it?

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