In silence, reflect in writing on your life experience...

Weather 

• Events and experiences since we last met...
• What has occupied my time...
• Moods and feelings...
• Encounters with people...
• Feedback I’ve gotten...
• Things I’ve said and done...
• Things I’ve been thinking about...
• etc.

Soil

• Insights and awarenesses that have come since we last met...
• Both inner and outer ways in which I've responded to what’s been going on in my life (e.g., “I kept myself really busy;” “I feel like I’ve been shut down”)...
• What I’ve noticed about myself, my life, my world...
• Any nudges or resistances I’ve experienced...
• Ways I’ve felt affirmed, challenged, stretched—and what I’ve done about them...
• etc.

Bedrock

• Ways in which I feel like I’ve hit a wall or come up against my limits...
• Places of powerlessness...
• Places of deep surrender...
• Ways in which I have come to know and own uncomfortable truth (good or bad) about myself...
• Ways in which I have experienced God beyond my control...
• Times of deep affirmation by or trust in God...
• etc.

Fire

• Deep experiences of the reality of God:  God before whom I fall down in awe...
• God who lends me “impossible” strength when I need it...
• God who is joy and peace that nothing can shake or take away...
• God who is awesome and breathtaking...
• God who is exhilarating energy flowing through me...
• etc.