| Questions For Contemplation: It is suggested that you take some time with these questions. Find a time and place of quiet, uninterrupted space, so that you may concentrate on your answers. Remember to bring pencil and paper with you, and write down your answers. Be as honest and as complete as you can. |

| HOPE: 1. Describe how you feel about the statement, "We need hope as much as we need air to breathe." 2. What can a grieving person learn from Psalm 22? Psalm 102? Other Psalms? 3. Why is it important to acknowledge and allow grief, but not to "indulge" in it? The Power Of Choice: 1. How have your choices affected the direction that your life has headed in? (List positive and negative ways, and be specific.) 2. What does God's "grace" mean to you? Have you made His grace personal in your own life? How? "Truth" vs. "Reality": 1. In I Thessalonians 4: 13, the Bible tells us, "But I would not have you to be ignorant, bretheren, about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve as do the rest who have no hope." What does it mean to grieve not, as others who have no hope? How can this be applied in your own life ... whether it be grief over the death of a loved one, or grief for a different reason? 2. In what ways can you change your thought patterns to enable you to grasp onto hope and healing? Please click the "Back" button on your browser to return to your page. |
