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The Next Right Thing A Simple Soulful Practice for Making Life Decisions Audible Audio Edition Emily P Freeman christianaudiocom Books Reviews

• Being an Enneagram 1, I have a very loud inner critic. I call her my inner hag. My inner hag uses a megaphone to remind me that my biggest weaknesses revolve around fear fear of failure, fear of doing the wrong thing, fear of not being good enough, and fear of making the wrong decision.
  
  In Emily P. Freeman’s latest book, she writes about how she was in an Uber with her bestie, and the driver told started to tell her a story about a difficult passenger she had driven. But instead of telling the two women about this passenger she said, “But we’re not going to give her words, ‘cause that’s exactly what she wants.’”
  
  Each time I have tried to decide what my next right steps are, my inner hag bellows out all the reasons I’m choosing wrong all the ways I can fail, all the things that might go wrong, and all the ways I’m going to disappoint not only myself but all those around me. It’s crippling and it keeps me from moving forward.
  
  Emily’s book offers gentle and compassionate ways for you to consider what’s keeping you from making your next right step (and I resonate with almost all of them), as well as practical steps to help you to move forward.
  
  This book came at a perfect time. I’m in a period of transition in my life, and my husband is getting ready to make a big decision that will impact our family in many ways. This is a book I will be reading again. Next time I’m going to go slower and take more notes. I highly recommend it
• I have enjoyed Emily Freeman’s work for several years, first as a member of the writing group Hope*Writers and then as a reader of several of her books. When Freeman started her podcast The Next Right Thing not quite two years ago, I immediately began listening. I enjoy podcasts and listen to a number of them in several different genres. I tend to listen to podcasts as I am driving in my car, cleaning around the house or taking walks. Since I am not normally in a place to take notes on any ideas that the podcast sparks, I don’t usually take much action on what I learn from them.
  
  I have been in a season of change over the past nine months or so, since my youngest child graduated from college. I have been trying to discern my “next right thing”. When I learned that The Next Right Thing book was being published I seized the chance to read it as soon as I could. Freeman does not disappoint in the book.
  
  The quote near the end of the book exemplifies its purpose for me. “We want to make good decisions, but the decision is rarely the point. We want to live a good life with our good and beautiful God. Doesn’t it all come down to trust?” This book serves a thoughtful guide for the person who has change occurring in her life and wants to make good decisions.
  
  The chapters are short and each of them end with a prayer and a short suggested action.
  Freeman has a beautiful writing style and the stories in each chapter are personal and illustrate her points perfectly. If you read this book and take the actions which are appropriate for you, I think you will draw closer to God and be more confident in your choices. As Freeman says, “it’s not a black-and-white world, which means decisions are rarely right or wrong. It doesn’t matter which road you choose. What matters is God with you.”
  
  I highly recommend The Next Right Thing for anyone who wants to grow in her spiritual walk with God.
  
  I received a complimentary copy from the publisher on Net Galley in exchange for a review of this book.
• "Where to begin? I would have to say, the author, Emily P. Freeman's gentle spirit is what makes her thoughts and practices resonate and come to life for me. Emily is able to convey her thoughts in an easy manner that I can continue to ponder for days and I can easily implement. Her ""next right thing"" way of walking with God has done a lot to ease my stress and tension. I was one of those who grew up not being able to do enough or do it fast enough. Consequently I've had to work to have a renewed mind, a free mind.
  
  In the 6th chapter, Be a Beginner, she discusses how beginnings aren't really a problem for us, it's being a beginner. She goes on to tell about an experience she had as an ASL interpreter when she was being evaluated by a supervisor. She said the supervisor gave her this review, ""Good work for a novice interpreter."" Emily didn't know what ""novice"" meant at the time, but now she does. She had hoped it meant savant or something similar, instead of a beginner. ""We often don't give ourselves permission to be new within them. Instead, we want to rush ahead to mastery"". This need to not feel like a beginner has often paralyzed me from doing ""the next right thing"".
  
  Emily's gentle words give me permission to walk my journey with ""my friend, Jesus"", at my own pace. Chapters like, Stay in Today, Be Where You Are, and Walk into the Room, give me an opportunity to breathe and to find the courage to simply do ""the next right thing"" in love for myself, and as I love myself, I am more able to love others.
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• I have been a fan of Emily's podcast "The Next Right Thing" and it's peaceful and yet thought-provoking messages each week. The podcast set a high bar for the book. She could have easily just put the transcripts of her podcast into her book but she did not and the book not only hits the bar, it jumps over it.
  
  After personally spending the last two years making some major life decisions, I have found myself to have decision fatigue. Emily addresses this in her own life and authentically shares her struggles with decision making, even opening up about decisions her family has faced. Emily gives suggestions at the end of each short chapter along with a prayer to point us in the direction of decluttering our soul and discovering ways to make room for silence, to look for the arrows in our life, and to seek life-giving endeavors.
  
  This book could be read at your own pace or digested quickly based on the format. The depth of the material though will have you lingering, and picking it back up as your work on learning to decide and discern and to do the next right thing.