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1 Dialogue Questions Choose the questions that most appropriately fit for your situation or relationship. Some questions can be adapted or modified depending on whether you are journaling as an individual or as a couple. The focus of each question is on the description of feelings generated by the question. Use the Prescription for Dialogue form to help structure your description. HDIF = How do I feel about HDIFAT = How do I feel about that HDIFAMA = How do I feel about my answer MY SPIRITUAL LIFE 1. HDIF about my spiritual growth? 2. HDIF about my spirituality? 3. HDIF about our spirituality? 4. HDIF when I think about my current spirituality? 5. Spirituality: What does it mean to me? 6. Am I growing spiritually? 7. HDIF about our spiritual growth as a couple? 8. HDIF about us being a spiritual couple? 9. How can we improve our spirituality as a family? 10. In what ways can I deepen our spirituality? 11. What could I do to help my own spiritual growth? 12. What could I do to help your spiritual growth? 13. What do I think about our spiritual growth as a couple? 14. What hobbies of mine get in the way of my spirituality? 15. What is most threatening to my spiritual growth right now? 16. What place do fasting and sacrifice have in my spiritual life? My Relationship to God 1. Am I suffering any disillusionment in my relationship with God? 2. At what times do I feel closest to God? 3. Can I see God in myself? 4. Can I see God in other people? 5. Can I see God in our children? 6. Can I see God in you? 7. Do I really believe that God loves me as I am, for who I am? 8. Do I really trust God? 9. Do I rely on God every day? 10. Have I made peace with God? 11. HDIF about God? 12. HDIF about my relationship with God? 13. HDIF about our relationship with God? 14. HDIF about the mask (personality style) I wear with God? 15. How well do I communicate with God? 16. How well do I think I listen to God? 17. In the area of God and our faith, what emotion / feeling do I find most difficult to share with you? 18. In what area do I need to risk sharing more with God? 19. In what areas do I have difficulty putting full trust in God?
2 20. What discourages me? Do I turn my discouragements over to God? 21. What do I expect of God? 22. What do I think God wants for us? 23. What do I want God to help us with? 24. What emotions / feelings about God do I find most difficult to share? 25. What expectations do I have of God? Are they being met? 26. What expectations do I have of God? 27. What obstacles do I need to overcome in order to love God better? 28. When do I most feel the presence of God? 29. After God forgives me, why cannot I forgive myself? 30. Am I patient enough with God? 31. Am I secure in the knowledge that God is present in my life even during my times of trouble? 32. Am I secure in the knowledge that God is present in our lives even during our times of trouble? 33. Am I willing to present my / our needs to God through prayer? 34. Do I allow God to work in me? 35. Do I believe God loves me? 36. Do I believe in God, even when He does not speak? 37. Do I ever feel God present and working in our marriage? 38. Do I fear God? 39. Do I give my relationship with God my full attention? 40. Do I give thanks to God for what I have not received, accepting that is His plan? 41. Do I make good use of the talents God has given to me? 42. Do I make other things more important than God? 43. Do I place artificial limits on God? How? 44. Do I put more than the average amount of effort into my relationship with God? 45. Do I reach God through my heart or through my head? 46. Do I reach out to God when I need help? 47. Do I really believe that God loves me where I am right now? 48. Do I see myself the same way God sees me? 49. Do I take my hurts to God, or just keep them to myself? 50. Do I talk openly to God, or do I hold things back? 51. Do I trust God to answer my prayers? 52. Do I use the talents God has given to me? 53. Do I want a deeper relationship with God, or do I think it is deep enough? 54. Do I wish to deepen the experience of God in our relationship? If so, how? 55. Do my personal goals conflict with the goals God has for me? 56. Does my humility bring me closer to God? 57. Have we said yes to God today? 58. HDIF about asking God to help us? 59. HDIF about being unconditionally loved by God? 60. HDIF about God being a compassionate God?
3 61. HDIF about let go and let God? 62. HDIF about my service to God? 63. HDIF about seeing God in you? 64. HDIF about sharing my troubles with God? 65. HDIF about the blessings and gifts God has given me? 66. HDIF about the blessings and gifts God has given us? 67. HDIF about trusting God for all our needs? 68. HDIF knowing that God has entrusted me with something special of Himself? 69. HDIF knowing that God needs us? 70. HDIF trusting God to guide our lives? 71. HDIF when I realize God has spoken to me through you? 72. HDIF when I realize that God has spoken, or is speaking, to me through you? 73. How can I tell that God loves us? 74. How do I gauge the blessings God has granted to us? 75. How does my pride get in the way of my relationship with God? 76. How well do I do trusting God to answer my needs? 77. How well do I show my love to God? 78. How well do we communicate with God? 79. Is God part of our marriage? 80. Is God the center of my life? 81. Is my heart fully open to God? 82. Is my image of God like my image of my father? 83. Is there time enough for God in my busy life? 84. It is difficult for me to listen to God when. 85. My favorite time with God is. 86. My image of God is. 87. What about my relationship with God can be improved? 88. What activities strengthen our relationship with God and Church? 89. What activities weaken our relationship with God and Church? 90. What are the things that bring me closer to God? 91. What can I do to listen to God better? 92. What can I do to make God a bigger part of our life? 93. What do I do that keeps me from being closer to God? 94. What gifts has God blessed me with? 95. What is my favorite name for God? 96. When am I most likely to ignore God? 97. When God made me, what were His dreams for me? 98. Who are my models for my relationship with God? 99. Whoever loves is a child of God. My Practice 1. Do I take enough time to pray/meditate routinely? 2. HDIF about my prayer/meditation life? 3. HDIF about our prayer/meditation life? 4. HDIF about the power of our prayer/meditation?
4 5. How can we incorporate prayer/meditation into our daily life? 6. How do I like to pray/meditate? 7. How often do I pray/meditate? 8. In the area of prayer/meditation, what emotion / feeling do I find most difficult to share with you? Describe it 9. What is prayer/meditation to me? 10. Am I impatient in prayer/meditation? 11. Are we too busy for prayer/meditation? 12. Do I believe in the power of prayer/meditation? 13. Do I believe prayer/meditation changes things? 14. Do I have an attitude of superiority or inferiority about prayer/meditation? 15. Do I pray/meditate about my plans before I make a decision? 16. Do I pray/meditate for love? 17. Do I pray/meditate for others to change, or for changes in myself? 18. Do I remember to pray/meditate when things are going well? 19. Do I remember to pray/meditate when things are not going well? 20. Have I ever felt a prayer was unanswered? 21. In what areas do I fail to practice what I preach? 22. My life is a prayer/meditation. 23. What are my hopes and dreams for my prayer/meditation life? 24. What are some of the things I pray for? 25. What area of my prayer/meditation life do I need to work on? 26. What can I do to make prayer/meditation a bigger part of our life? 27. What do I pray for? 28. What is my listening pattern when we talk about prayer/meditation or God? 29. What mask (personality style) do I wear in the area of prayer/meditation? 30. What power do I see in our prayer/meditation? 31. When I pray/meditate, do I listen? 32. When I pray, do I really mean the words I am saying, or is it just rote? My Religion 1. HDIF about my religion? 2. What does my religion mean to me? 3. What is most appealing to me about being religious? 4. Have I ever changed religious faiths? 5. How do I behave in a group when they start talking about religion? 6. Is religion something we do or something we live? 7. What am I doing for my own religious education?
5 My Faith 1. HDIF about being of my faith? 2. In the area of God and our faith, what emotion / feeling do I find most difficult to share with you? 3. Is my faith growing or dying? 4. Where do I stand in my faith? 5. Do I generally have faith that everything will work out for the best? 6. HDIF when someone questions my faith? 7. In our inter-faith marriage, do we celebrate aspects of both faiths in our relationship? 8. What do I do that demonstrates my faith? 9. What role does faith play in our relationship?
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