The journal holds space for four daily rhythms, patterns that provide shape and offer form in your time with God.

• Scripture: Choose a framework to guide your reading of the Scriptures and a plan that suits your time and helps you remain consistent.

• Prayer: pray and personalise the Lord's Prayer daily, using it as a model to intertwine God's priorities with the realities of our lives so that we may resist becoming too introspective as we pray.

• Thankfulness: The Apostle Paul often encouraged us to give thanks as often as possible, so not only do we want to become more aware of God's love for us but also demonstrate our love for him by being thankful in return.

• Love for Others: Our love for God naturally leads to love for others. This section provides a prompt to look beyond your own life, because spending time with God should always lead us to be sent out and demonstrate the love of God toward others.

Each page of the journal begins with one guiding question: How is God working in my life?

Over time, this creates a written record of grace, helping you attend to God’s faithfulness, process your inner life, and prayerfully consider where growth may be needed.

Here are four practical tips for developing a weekly rhythm of journaling:

1. Pause: Choose a regular time and place that is sustainable, set aside your phone or other distractions, and begin with prayer, asking God to be present with you and to help you be still before him.

2. Reflect: Let the prompt focus your attention rather than trying to write everything at once.

3. Notice: Mark the date so the journal will become a reminder of God’s faithfulness across time.

4. Respond: Write freely and honestly, because God provides freedom from needing to make the words you write profound or for anyone else’s eyes. Everything in your head and heart belongs on the page.

This rhythm provides an opportunity to consider how you can bring your whole self before God in love; including your spiritual, relational, physical, and mental health. Practically, this involves prayerfully working through the ‘reflecting’ page followed by the ‘anticipating’ page as one month draws to a close and the next month begins.

Attending to the whole of life involves a regular practice to:

• Anticipate: Prayerfully consider the month ahead and the kind of person you hope to become.

• Give Thanks: Look back with gratitude and honesty, noticing where God has been at work and where growth may be needed.

• Reorient: Review how your daily and weekly rhythms are shaping you, and where they may need adjustment.

• Renew: Use these pages in whatever way most helps you return to Jesus, especially as you attend to relationships, wellbeing, work, rest, and generosity.