HOW DO YOU VALUE YOUR LIFE’S JOURNEY?

In the later stages of life it is important to value your life’s journey. One way to do that is to record your life history. Use a list of questions that will evoke memories. Here are some sample questions for your personal history taken from Houston and Parker’s book.

• What is your spiritual story?
• What is your faith tradition?
• Describe how you arrived at your faith or lack thereof.
• In what ways has your spirituality and/or religious beliefs/practices influenced your daily work? Your Family? Your health?
• How was your faith helpful during troubled times?
• How has your involvement with a Christian congregation been helpful?
• Apart from the Bible, what are three or four books that have been of vital help to you?
• What refreshes you most when tired?
• What answers to prayer have influenced you over the years?
• How has your church involvement been difficult at times?
• How has your faith helped you to mature? How has your faith helped you with personal illness or disability?
• How has your faith changed your life for good or bad?
• What is your greatest hope for your children and grandchildren?
• What message do you want to leave behind?
• What is your earliest childhood memory?
• What kind of games did you play growing up?
• What did you do for fun as a child?
• What were your family chores?
• What was school like for you as a child?
• What were your best and worst subjects?
• Where did you attend school, college etc.?
• Who were your childhood heroes?
• What church did you attend?
• Who were your friends when you were growing up?
• What world events had the most impact on you as a child?
• What was a typical family dinner?
• What were your favorite foods?
• How is the world different today from when you were a child?
• Who was the oldest relative you remember as a child? What do you remember about them?
• What was your profession and how did you choose it?
• What was the most valuable thing you learned from your parents?
• What did your family enjoy doing together?
• What accomplishments are you the most proud of?
• What is the one thing you most want people to remember about you?