
Whether you're in the midst of a major life transition or are weary of the low-grade anxiety that daily life can bring, you need a little space for your soul to breathe so you can discern your next right thing in love. find the courage to finally decide without regret or second-guessing.With seasonal and monthly pages of insightful questions, personal lists, and guided decision-making techniques, this journal will help you to: Freeman offers a fresh way of practicing familiar but often forgotten advice: do the next right thing.Īfter the release of The Next Right Thing book in 2019, this journal is a resource designed to help you personalize the decision-making practices from the book. If you have trouble making decisions because of either chronic hesitation or decision fatigue, Emily P. Help us to know the difference between being pushed by fear and led by love.When we have a decision to make, what we want more than anything is peace, clarity, and a nudge in the right direction. Let us keep company with you at a walking pace, moving forward together one step at a time.

We resist the urge to sprint ahead in a hurry or lag behind in fear. When you delay the answers, we wait with hope, Lord. Since that experience I have learned to ask before every difficult decision: Am I being led by love or pushed by fear? We can’t prevent storms from coming, but we can decide not to invent our own.

If we don’t take cover, then we might be overcome. This is when our lives become marked by hiding from the potential storms of loneliness, failure, isolation, or invisibility. Sometimes we’re afraid to move because we want to avoid an unwanted consequence. Once I named the fear, it lost a lot of its power, and so I found the courage I needed to say yes. In an attempt to avoid an unwanted consequence, I was allowing fear to push me around. I was basing this decision on a storm I was imagining. “But please, don’t let fear be one of them.” He said, “There may be a lot of reasons for you to say no to this trip,” he said.

They refuse to leave us alone until we face them. What if the way we make decisions is just as important as the decisions we make Discern + Decide is a self-paced online companion class to The Next Right Thing, designed to help you create a rhythm of life that supports soulful decision making. After two weeks of praying, discussing, seeking counsel, and general ridiculousness, I finally had a candid conversation with our trip leader, Shaun Groves. They pull, they push, they interrupt our days and poke us awake at night. There was a tugging, a pulling, an unsettledness either way. Then I pretended to say yes, and that didn’t sit well either. For one day, I pretended to say no in my mind.

As host of The Next Right Thing podcast, she helps create space for the soul to breathe, offering fresh perspective on the sacredness of our inner life. Emily is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Simply Tuesday and A Million Little Ways, and her newest book, The Next Right Thing. I was afraid of getting sick in a foreign country. My guest for The Happy Hour 235 is Emily P. My decision whether to accept was agonizing. I was once invited to travel as a writer with Compassion International to the Philippines to see the work Compassion was doing on behalf of children. This is especially true when we have a difficult decision to make. It’s possible to take cover even when there’s nothing to take cover from, except for a heavy idea or a recurring thought in the night. It’s possible to live with the dread of a storm even when the sky is clear without a threat of rain.
