What Has Surprised You?: A Journaling Exercise or Prompt

What Has Surprised You?: A Journaling Exercise or Prompt

Journal your response to each of the numbers below:
1 What has taken you by surprise in your life--for the good and for the bad? List as many things as you can think of, right now, and then as you think of more throughout the day.
2 What has surprised you the most recently? How big of a surprise was it? Why did it? Was it for the good or the bad? What did it mean for your life? (Answer each of those questions in #2, please.)
3 How do you handle surprises in general?
4 What do you do when you are mind-boggled because of something? This is also a surprise. Make a list of everything you can think of that has boggled your mind in your life--and recently.
5 How has each of these been a blessing in your life?