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Religion 10/1st Quarter “Structured” Reflection Paper/worth 100points Due:_________ “Grace Date”_________
1. To what faith tradition(s) does your family belong?
What role does religion play in your family and in your growing up?
2. What does your religious tradition mean to you personally? Do you “practice” your faith? How so?
3. Who (or what event) has had the biggest influence in your life faith-wise? How so?
4. Tell me a little about your worship/prayer life. What is your typical “style” of prayer? Why do you
pray? What do you expect from it? Are you satisfied with your prayer life or would you like something
more? How has your prayer life changed from when you were a child? (Remember that prayer has
personal and communal dimensions!)
5. What are the biggest obstacles you experience or have experienced with regard to your relationship
with God/prayer life/spirituality? Have you tried to work through them? What happened?
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While developing our personal relationship with God is important, we are also called to serve each
other. What do you do to share your gifts with others? (Ex: In your family? At church? At SFP? In
your community?) What do you get out of it? [If you are not involved anywhere, would you like to be?
Why or why not?]
Name three aspects of your character of which you are proud. Briefly explain why this trait is important to you…
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8. Something about the world that really bothers me is_________________________________
I would hope that…
9. If a book was being published about your life to date,
A meaningful title for it would be…
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Three significant chapters from the book would be entitled…
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10. If a book was being published about your relationship with God, a good title might be:
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The overall goal of this assignment is to have you reflect and communicate some of your faith history & practice, spirituality and self
awareness. Keep that in mind as you think about and answer the questions. Each is worth 10 possible points. Naturally, I can not
grade your life-experience and faith…rather, I am grading the care and quality of thought as evidenced by your written answers.
Optional: You may modify/replace one or two of the above questions if they are too difficult or impossible for you to answer. If you
choose to do this, you may modify and answer it right on this sheet, or attach separate a separate sheet if you’re presenting your own
question, answering it in a paragraph or two – keeping in mind the overall goal of this assignment..