When Integrity Makes Room for Grace: Pattern One — Mapping

You're the kind of person who notices what needs to be made right. This Advent, bring your desire for integrity—and the weight of getting things right—into relationship with Jesus.

Completely rewritten for 2026. This second edition of The Awaiting includes a newly developed Mapping pattern guide and entirely new daily devotional readings.

You care about doing what is right. You notice inconsistencies, take responsibility seriously, and often see a way something could be improved. Those gifts can serve people beautifully. They can also make it difficult to rest, accept an imperfect effort, or remain close to someone whose choices frustrate you.

Perhaps you finish a conversation and keep reviewing what you should have said. Perhaps you struggle to enjoy a gathering because you can see everything that still needs attention. Even Advent can become another season you feel responsible for doing well.

When Integrity Makes Room for Grace offers a thoughtful Christian companion for bringing these experiences into prayer and ordinary life. Centered on relationship with Christ, it explores how your desire for goodness can become increasingly available to love.

Understand your pattern with compassion.

The opening guide introduces the Neuro-Based Enneagram and explores Pattern One—Mapping: its strengths, relational needs, protective responses, and possibilities for growth. You’ll consider what narrows your freedom under pressure and how to recognize the space between an automatic reaction and a more thoughtful response.

Walk with Christ from Thanksgiving through Epiphany.

The devotional journey moves through receiving, hope, peace, joy, love, Christmas, and embodied faith. Each reading brings together Scripture, reflection, practice, journaling questions, and prayer, with invitations to carry what you notice into your relationships and daily choices.

Along the way, you are invited to:

• Recognize when careful discernment becomes quick judgment.
• Bring frustration and self-criticism honestly into relationship with God.
• Remain curious when your first impression feels certain.
• Practice repair when your words or expectations create distance.
• Receive grace while something remains imperfect or unfinished.
• Offer your integrity with greater patience, tenderness, and freedom.

Throughout the book, three strands belong together: Life with God, Inner Knowledge, and Life Together. Insights from neuroscience, attachment, and personality illuminate the journey, while Scripture and participation in the life of Christ remain central.

You can use this devotional on your own, with a spiritual companion, or in a group. The included Leader’s Guide supports groups reading the same pattern and groups using different volumes in the series. No previous Enneagram knowledge is needed.

When Integrity Makes Room for Grace is the Mapping volume of The Awaiting, a nine-book Neuro-Based Enneagram Advent devotional series for Christian spiritual formation. Shaped by Advent’s themes, this journey can be entered at any time of year.

Make room this Advent to receive Christ’s presence and offer your gifts with grace.