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We at "FRIENDS" recognize the enormous toll that cancer takes on your
spiritual, physical, and emotional well-being. This is designed to provide
you with spiritual support, first, as a self-assessment inventory, to help you determine
and evaluate how you perceive yourself from a spiritual perspective and, second,
as a resource for reflection with readings from the Bible for meditation and inspiration.
Spiritual Self-Assessment
Reflect for several moments on each spiritual issue as you presently understand
them. Then, as you perceive each spiritual issue in the context of your life, try
to identify where you might be on the continuum. You might find it helpful
to write these down, as you see them below, or print this page and mark a spot along
the dotted line.
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Despair............................Hope
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Brokenness......................Wholeness
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Dread/Fear.......................Courage
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Loneliness.......................Connectedness
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Meaningless....................Meaningful
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Guilt/Shame....................Grace
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Helplessness...................Power
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One or more markings placed to the left side of the continuum may suggest that you
are in a place in your spiritual journey where spiritual support may be beneficial.
John 16:33 Jesus said, "I have told you these things, so that in me you
may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome
the world." NIV
God never did answer Job's intelligent inquiries, and He will not respond to all
of ours. Every person who ever lived, I submit, has had to deal with seeming contradictions
and enigmas. We will not be an exception. However, as Believers in Christ we have
a Godly Hope and Grace to carry us through whatever this journey called life brings
us.
Prayer: “Lord, I want to be faithful when the night is dark and lonely, when the
supports are sliding away, one by one, when personal doubts and fears seem valid,
show me how to cultivate faith, when as I look above, the sky seems to be falling.“
I lift
up my
eyes to the hills - From where will my help come?
My help
comes from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
- Psalm
121:1-2
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