Chapter 37 · Section Eight, Barriers to Crossing
Lean Forward
Forgiveness is not a feeling. It is a crossing.
The question this chapter asks
What is the next step you can lean into this week?
Practice
15 minutes
The forgiveness step
Name the relationship that needs forgiveness. Write what leaning back from it has cost you, then the one step you could take before the end of the week. Put that step in your calendar before you close the notebook.
For the group
What have you been leaning back from that you know you need to lean into? Say it. Then the group asks one question: "What happens if you lean in this week?"
For the leader
Like Chapter 31, make it time-bound. "This week" transforms a wish into a commitment.
If your group prays together
Let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles.
Optional.