In our lives there are many directions we can focus on. In Helen Cepro’s Journaling as a Spiritual Practice: Encountering God Through Attentive Writing
To Look South is to be focused on the “Sunny exposure” of your life. This is the creative and playful part of your own life. to evaluate this think about what is drawing creativity out of you. Make a collage or write down a name of a person who inspires you!
To Look East is to look toward a rising sun. What is beginning to appear on your horizon? What are you being asked to take hold of? What are you being called to embrace? What areas in your life are in need of transformation.
To Look West is to look at your life and see what is setting. Are there patterns or paradigms that just don’t seem to be working anymore? What do you need to let go of? They aren’t necessarily bad things, they are often good gifts of God that you need to move beyond in the next chapter of life.
To Look North is to look to what guides you (like the north star, sorry southern hemisphere types). It helps you keep the other directions aligned. What or who loves and guides you? What images of God sustain you? Take time to thank God for these sorts of things!
In The Center if you have thought about all these things write them down on a sheet of paper oriented like a compass. In the middle leave a space. Think about if you are willing to try to live your life by the compass you have just created. If you are, write YES in the middle.
I decided I would try to make a little compass like Helen talks about.
Here is where my life is right now:
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