Reflection Questions
Welcome to the Wisdom of the World - Joan Chittister

• Guilt can be a grace – if it seeks to repair and we are able to accept the newness that comes.

If we stumble, “our obligation is to get up and start over.”  (p. 67)

 I think of a time in my own life when I stumbled, when my choices/behaviors, etc. led to guilt and regret in me.

 Did I seek to repair the damages?  How? What changes/newness have come as a result?

If I have not taken steps to repair and make changes, what holds me back?  What steps would be possible now for me to move forward?

• “Life is a process made up of many experiments, many mistakes, many          learnings, many possibilities.” (p. 69)

•  (p. 69)

 Do I have a tendency toward these ways of living?  If so, in what ways do they block me from my own goodness, my true self?

•  Chittister turn to the lives of the saints in answering the chapter’s lead question – “Is it possible to Make Up for Past Mistakes?” writing, it is always possible.

 What is an example of this in my own life?  In what ways have I made up for the mistake(s) I made?