I myself am on my own journey towards that abundant and fulfilled life I have heard of. Some of these questions I have answers to, but many more are things that I am wrestling with as well. If anyone has any other questions that might suit this section, please submit them through the contact me form.
Was Desire right in pleading with Dawn to move forward or should she have just let her make her own decision and let her go?
When someone in our lives stops short in an area in their lives where we can see there is so much more awaiting them, what is the best response we can give?
How much responsibility is on us to encourage, inspire, challenge them to move forward and when is enough enough?
Is there anyone in our lives where our words of encouragement have been what someone needed to move forward?
What is the correct balance of fighting for someone’s best and enabling them, encouraging them to press on to better and letting them live their own life?
If Desire was surer about Sam and wanted to marry him, do you think she should have stayed in the Silver Mountains with him? What if they were married and she wanted to move forward but he wanted to stay, what should she have done in that situation? Is there ever a time to sacrifice and give up our dreams to follow through on previous commitments and responsibilities?
What happens when the person we are committed to gets stuck and holds us back from moving forward? Is there a possibility that further down the line, this person will also potentially have the same desire to go towards the Golden Pastures but maybe they’re just not ready yet? And how can we respond in that situation of waiting?
If because of honoring a commitment we find ourselves in the Silver Mountains when really we want to be in the Golden Pastures, what can we do in our present situations to make them Gold? Is there anything we can do to change the dynamics in the situation to transform it into Gold? Is there another way to look at things? Another approach we can take to make things better during the time that we are there?
Does one have to go through the Silver Mountains before they reach the Golden Pastures? And if you do have to pass through the Silver Mountains before moving on to the Gold, how do you know when the time is right to continue on?
Is that part of the process or is there any way of jumping over the Silver Mountains to make it to the Golden Pastures? Will it mean the same thing if one hasn’t paid their dues by pressing through the Silver to get to the Gold? What if the opportunity comes our way to make the jump from the Bronze Hills directly to the Golden Pastures?
Is it a good thing that Desire left some of her friends behind to follow her heart? What would she be like if she decided to stay back with Dawn and wait for her to be ready to take the next step? With Sam, if she decided to stop and settle in the Silver Mountains? Would those stirrings in her heart for the Golden Pastures simply be repressed and come back again or would they die out and fade away? Would she eventually see Sam as her Golden Pastures?
When faced with choosing the good and the more comfortable verses the risky but the best, are there different times when the good is just good enough?
When striving for the best, will there always be something better to strive for once achieving it? How will we know when we’ve reached the Gold?
Is Gold stationary or does it move, does it change in different circumstances?
Is there the possibility that once we arrive at Gold, it opens up bigger dreams and more possibilities than before?
Are there any areas where we may have thought they were Silver situations but they are really Gold?
When Desire finally reaches The Golden Pastures after some time, it seems that she still is not fulfilled. Had she found the abundant life and gotten bored of it? Will there always more? Even if she returns and “rescues” all the others and brings them back with her to The Golden Pastures, will she then be satisfied or will there always be something else, something more she needs to do to find true satisfaction?
Is there true contentment here without God? Or even with God, is there a way that one can be fully satisfied here and now or will there always be more of God to know? What is that abundant life that Jesus spoke about and how can we thrive in that now?
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