WayMaker by Ann Voskamp
Week 4: Chapter 3 — The Sacred Pathway: ATTEND
Read Chapter 3 of WayMaker. Key Scripture: Exodus 3:1–6; 1 Kings 19:12.
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Once we stop, we must learn to attend — to pay the kind of slow, patient attention that actually notices where God is already at work in the details of our ordinary lives.
Discussion Questions
8 questions1.Ann points to Moses at the burning bush as the model of attending: he 'turned aside to see' (Exodus 3:4). What does it mean that God waited to speak until Moses turned? What does that suggest about the relationship between our attention and God's communication?
2.Voskamp's practice of 'one thousand gifts' (from her earlier book) is woven through WayMaker as a form of attending — deliberately noticing goodness. How has or hasn't gratitude functioned as a spiritual discipline in your own life?
3.She describes attending as a kind of holy noticing — looking for God in the small, unglamorous details of a day. What small moment from the past week, if you had attended to it more carefully, might have been a burning bush for you?