Spiritual Bio Assignment

Please bring a notebook / journal / paper or such for keeping track of your thoughts and such during the class.

Because we are going to be doubling up on classes I'm going to give you a 'think about this' before we even start. There will be some time to complete this is class but will be easier if you have thougt things out before hand.

Guidelines for writing your spiritual autobiography.
(Copyrighted by Richard Gilbert - BYOT)

Your religious life story is your own; no one can tell you how to present it. still, since it has been done before, we can suggest some guidelines which might help you tell it. While it is possible to share your story from notes. the greatest benefit will come if you write it in full.

1. Time line: draw a horizontal line on a piece of paper. At the left margin make a dot and write the date of your birth. At the left margin make another dot and write the date of you expect to die (a reasonalbe estimate). along the line make a third dot and write the current date.

2. Life functions in space. What are the places in which significant things have happened to you.

3. All life is meeting others. Who are the three or four people who have had the greatest impact on your life? why?

4. Experiences shape our religious faith. What are two or three formative experiences of your life and why are they important to you?

5. We life in communities. which communities, religious or not, have had lasting influence on your develompment

6. We are choosing creatures. think of the important decisions in your life and discuss what they meant to you, how they were made and the result.

7. Some of our experiences we choose to call religious. Think of two or three such experiences that were turning points for you.

8. Life is made of joy and sorrow. List a few of the happiest and saddest experiences of your life.

9. Can you reflect upon your odyssey and discern any theological values that have informed you?