We are using the UUA’s Soul Matters resources this year. January’s theme is Practicing Resistance.
This list of questions is an aid for deep reflection. How you answer them is often less important than the journey they take you on. Read through the list 2-3 times until one question sticks out for you and captures your attention, or as some faith traditions say, until one of the questions “shimmers.”
Then reflect on that question using one or all of these questions:
What is going on in my life right now that makes this question so pronounced for me?
What might my inner wisdom be trying to say to me through this question?
How might this question be trying to wake me up or get me to realize something through this question?
How might Life or my inner wisdom be trying to offer me a word of comfort or challenge through this question?
1. As a kid, did you resist the rules, or did you follow them? How might you see an echo of that earlier self in your life today?
2. Is there a time from your past when you wish you had found a way to resist the fear of failure?
3. Is it time to heed the warning that “What you resist, persists”?
4. Has joy ever been an “act of resistance” for you?
5. Has your resistance to change grown or eased as you’ve gotten older?
6. What song, book or movie has inspired or supported your resistance efforts?
7. Our self-focused culture is not designed to encourage activism and other-centered resistance. Who do you have to thank for you becoming someone who counter-culturally cares about and works for needs greater than your own?
8. How is your corner of the world calling you to help save it?
9. What small step could you take in the next month or two to make your resistance more radical?