In times of transition and change, particularly in seasons of loss or fresh beginnings, it can be very helpful in our journey to pause and take spiritual inventory, to take time to listen to the voice of the Spirit, to look back and lighten the load and to look to the future with thankfulness and hope.

In today’s teaching I want to share a tool I have used for the past thirty years to help me take spiritual inventory.

It is very simple. It is, I believe, deeply Biblical. And it has unfailingly been very helpful.

The simple part is that it only involves completing four sentences. The deeply Biblical part is that it touches on themes that run through Scripture and run through the human heart. The helpful part...well that depends on how honest we want to be and how deep we want to go.

As we end one year and begin a new one, I invite us to listen to the voice of God’s Spirit as we consider what

I resent... I regret... I appreciate... I hope...