Join the ATG team at the table today as week reframe legacy from the Biblical idea that your story is for God’s glory.

For we are God’s masterpiece. He has created us anew in Christ Jesus, so we can do the good things he planned for us long ago. Eph 2:10 NLT

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Resources: The Fix: How the Twelve Steps Offer aSurprising Path of Transformation for the Well-Adjusted, the Down-and-Out, and Everyone In Between, Ian Morgan Cron https://a.co/d/3wzBkSy⁠

Making Sense of Your Story, Adam Young https://a.co/d/1Kua3k4⁠

⁠Therapy and Theology⁠ Podcast

Discussion Questions:

1.  Take a look back.  Some of your story began before you took your first breath.  Share some experiences fromyour family of origin.

a.       How did your parents meet?

b.       What is your birth story?

c.       How did you come to receive your name?

d.       What was your home like growing up?

e.       As a child what made you feel safe? And what made you feel scared?

2.  Take a look around. Who is the person that greets you in the mirror each day? Let’s ask her some questions to get tothe root of who she is.

a. Ian Cron says one of the most informativequestions that we can ask is, what is it like to experience me? Ask this to someone trusted to give an honest answer.

b.  Name a situation, location, or relationship that leaves you dysregulated and over-stimulated. What is going on in the scene and what is it that creates a spiral of negative emotions and reactions?

c.  In this season, what is your deepest desire and your deepest disappointment?

d.  Everything we do illuminates or obscures the character of God. What is your greatest challenge currently? How are you responding to thischallenge?

3.  Take a look forward. It’s not how you start the race, it’s how you finish. On every page, the Bible proclaims againand again that God wastes NOTHING!

a. How do you want to be remembered? The nudge here is to write your eulogy.  Or, if that seems too morbid to you, write what you would want those who know you best to say about you behind your back!

b. What steps of intentionality can you make to become the you that you desire to be?

c.  If you could accomplish one meaningful goal for Christ, without the possibility of failure, what would you do?  

d.  So why aren’t you doing it? (see previous question)

4.  Let this sink deep for a moment…  The God of the Universe knew at this time in history that the world needed a YOU! (insert your name). You have been created for good works planned long ago. There is nothing past or present thatdisqualifies you from that!

Prayer:Lord, I am humbled that you saw fit to not only give me life but gave my life a purpose.  My small narrative wrapped inyour larger one. A story You wrote long before anyone here on earth caught a glimpse of my existence. Forgive me where I have squandered this story and wasted opportunity to know you and make you known. Forgive me when I havechosen comfort over intentionality. Forgive me when I have gotten sidetracked with things unessential to Your purpose. Thank you for never leaving me even in the darkest of night! You were there, with glimmer of new mercies every morning. Ineed you, Lord, to remind me that You waste nothing, and help me to see that though I don’t understand it, in your hands, it’s worth it!  Lord, bring wholeness to this story,generations depend on it! Open the eyes of my heart to know the hope of my calling and help me to see myself as You do… I am chosen! I am redeemed! I am Yours! I am a masterpiece! May my greatest expression of gratitude for thislife be to honor You living it with integrity, intentionality, and wonder! I invite you now to work Your artistic design and use this story for Your glory! Amen!

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