Exploring Eldership

Whatever format you use it is a very good idea to allow room to go back over journal entries and add to them. It is when you do this later re-reading that you can become your own “critical friend” adding comments about what you are reading and how you feel as you read what you wrote. 

This may well be the point at which you begin to add biblical insights to your text or relate what you’ve written to hymns or other aspects of our tradition. You are starting to work with your text reflectively. This will yield all sorts of invaluable material to draw on as you go onwards with your personal and faith development.