Two movements: first toward the inner story, then outward toward curiosity, relationship, contribution, and purpose.
The first collection preserves all 87 reflection prompts from Transforming Tragedy: From Casualty to Royalty, grouped by the book’s six parts. The second collection is newly drafted for this Psychology page and turns reflection toward the world beyond the self.
You do not need to answer every question. Choose one that creates honest attention, write for ten minutes, and end with one next action or one question worth carrying.
Movement one
The inner journey
Exact reflection questions from Transforming Tragedy.
01
Awakening
The compositions in this section marked the beginning of a journey. Use the pages that follow to explore your own moments of awakening — when light first broke through.
When did you first feel something greater than yourself reaching toward you?
What does awakening mean to you — was it sudden or gradual?
Describe a moment when beauty stopped you in your tracks.
What has God used to get your attention in your life?
Where do you feel most spiritually alive?
What does Eden represent to you personally — what would your paradise look like?
Have you ever stood at a threshold knowing your life was about to change? Describe it.
What does it feel like when you sense God watching over you?
What tears have you brought to His feet?
What does the face of God look like to you in your imagination?
What would you surrender if you truly believed something greater was waiting?
Where in your life do you most need His fire to purify?
What hidden thing inside you is waiting to be revealed?
Has darkness ever been scattered by an unexpected light in your life? Describe it.
Who in your life needs someone to not let go of them right now?
What are you reaching for that feels just beyond your grasp?
Where is the drought in your life — what are you waiting for God to pour into?
What would it mean for you to spread your hands out to the sky and mean it?
Write a few words to God about something you have never said out loud before.
What river is God asking you to stand in right now?
What wonder have you witnessed that you have never fully thanked Him for?
02
Transformation
Something had to die for something new to live. These questions invite you to look honestly at what God has changed, is changing, and is still working on inside of you.
What was the moment your old self began to crack and something new started to emerge?
What does surrender feel like to you — is it defeat or relief?
What blueprint is God drawing for your life right now?
What injury — emotional, spiritual, or physical — are you still waiting to be fully healed?
What chain has God already broken that you sometimes still act like is there?
Where in your mind do you most need Him to build a holy place?
What is your purpose as you understand it today?
How has your sense of purpose changed over the last few years?
What seed inside you has been planted but not yet grown?
What did God send you for — what specific thing do you believe you were raised up to do?
How has God filled your cup in ways you did not expect?
What unseen kingdom is waking up inside you right now?
Who has been a father or mother figure to you in your recovery or spiritual journey?
What act of love from an unexpected person changed your direction?
How has your definition of healing changed since you began this journey?
What does it mean to you to walk as Jesus walked?
Where in your daily life is humility the hardest to maintain?
What would your life look like if you walked in complete surrender today?
Write a prayer of transformation in your own words — even just a few sentences.
What is the most significant way you have changed in the last year?
What do you want the next version of yourself to look like?
03
Songs of the Journey
Every journey has a soundtrack. The questions ahead invite you to find yours — the moments worth celebrating, the freedom worth naming, and the song your life is still singing.
What song, hymn, or melody has carried you through a difficult season?
When did praise feel impossible — and what made it possible again?
What does worship look like for you in your everyday life, outside of church?
What are you celebrating today that you once thought was lost forever?
What does freedom feel like in your body when you experience it?
What would you shout if you were not afraid of what people thought?
What part of your journey has felt like a song — with highs, lows, and a chorus that keeps returning?
How has perseverance changed the way you see yourself?
What word or phrase from this section will you carry with you?
Write the title of the song your life is singing right now.
Who has been a fellow traveler on your journey that deserves to be named here?
What is one thing you want to never stop celebrating?
04
Contemplations
Some truths arrive quietly. These questions are designed to slow you down, sit with you, and draw out what has been stirring beneath the surface of your daily life.
What truth have you been sitting with lately that you cannot fully explain yet?
When do you feel most reflective — morning, evening, or somewhere in between?
What does silence teach you that noise never can?
What desire have you been afraid to name out loud?
Has wanting something ever led you somewhere unexpected — where did it take you?
What does contentment feel like to you, and how close are you to it?
What butterfly moment have you experienced — a transformation you did not see coming?
What have the cycles of your life taught you about God's faithfulness?
What evening recently ended with a sense of peace — what made it that way?
What heavenly accent are you developing — how is God changing the way you speak and think?
What moment from today, this week, or this year will you carry forward?
Write a single sentence that captures what this season of contemplation has revealed to you.
05
Testimonies of Fire
Fire refines what it does not consume. These questions invite you to name what you have survived, what has been restored, and the testimony only you can carry.
What is your pearl of great price — the thing God has restored that you once thought was gone forever?
What dead thing in your life has walked again?
Who in your life has been a man or woman of God to you — how did they show up?
What fire have you walked through that you can now say made you stronger?
What lie did the enemy use against you — and what truth replaced it?
What testimony do you carry that someone else needs to hear?
What apple have you needed to toss — what temptation or distraction has God called you to release?
What does running into the sun mean for your life right now?
What are you running toward today that your past self never believed was possible?
Write your testimony in three sentences — where you were, what happened, and where you are now.
What is the most significant thing God has rescued you from?
What do you want the next chapter of your story to say?
06
Prayers and Meditation
Declaration is an act of faith. The questions ahead invite you to examine what you believe, what you are still believing for, and how prayer is shaping the person you are becoming.
Which declaration from The Power-Up resonated most deeply with you — why?
What promise of God do you find hardest to believe about yourself?
What would change in your daily life if you spoke these declarations every morning?
What mountain — sadness, doubt, fear, lack — are you commanding to move today?
How does prayer change the way you see your day before it begins?
What miracle are you believing God for right now?
What does it mean to be consumed by God — have you ever felt that way?
Write your own one-sentence declaration of faith for today.
What light has God turned on in your life that used to be darkness?
Movement two
The outer discovery
New Moore Press prompts for exploring interests, community, contribution, and the life healing makes possible.
Curiosity
What subject makes you lose track of time, and what is one serious question you want to pursue within it?
Whose work do you admire, and what method—not image—could you learn from?
What place in your community have you never entered, and what respectful first step would help you understand it?
Contribution
Which problem near you is small enough to serve this month?
What skill, experience, or access could you offer without needing to be the center?
Who is already doing good work, and how could you strengthen rather than duplicate it?
Relationships
Which relationship deserves more consistent attention?
Who sees a strength in you that you have been slow to accept?
What conversation could replace an assumption with a question?
Place and culture
What story does your town tell about itself, and whose experience is missing from that story?
Which local institution shapes daily life more than most people notice?
What tradition from another generation or culture would you like to understand from someone who lives it?
Purpose in motion
Where has healing increased your capacity to help, create, teach, protect, or build?
What kind of difficulty are you now willing to endure for something meaningful?
If your values could design one ordinary Saturday, what would the day contain?
Experiment
What two-week experiment could test an interest before you make a large commitment?
What would you try if the result did not need to become an identity or income?
At the end of the experiment, what evidence would tell you to continue, revise, or release it?
