"The Spiritual Strengths Profile enabled me to understand how my illness interacts with the whole of my life. I know God’s mercy and healing power is at work in the Spiritual Strengths Profile."
“The SSP has opened up for me a new avenue and a valuable instrument to aid me in my search for meaning in my life. I feel it will be a wonderful tool to help me when I get into a “down” state, to life myself and get back to the middle way of my virtues.”
“By learning what my strengths, shadows and compulsion are, I feel I have a head start on dealing with my illness and brokenness. I know where my vulnerabilities are and how to get into my strengths.”
Healing means opening up the necessary space for my signature spiritual strengths to work. Illness makes me feel confined, cramped, enclosed and uncovered. I want to escape the ropes around me and just breathe freely again. Illness holds me captive to a life I never wanted; never even imagined. Yet, here I am. What do I do? I need rescue. I feel a touch, a...
Healing is fundamentally an act of grace. What is grace? I know grace comes only from God, and I know that God is all-powerful; so grace must be a spiritual impulse of God’s power. Grace is God’s “spiritual electricity” powering my healing. Grace courses through my nervous system, activating my neurons, and cleansing my synapses; letting the healing juice of grace find its target for...
Healing offers me a new attitude, new perspective, and a new story about my illness – a story that offers me new hope and new resolve. My illness grabbed me and pulled me into the darkness – a place where I could no longer touch my soul. I stumbled around in this darkness: alone afraid, and anguished. Light had left me. But then a ray...
Healing activates my God-given internal healing mechanisms. Healing activates my God-given internal healing mechanisms. Deep within me are mighty mechanisms of healing. These powerful mechanisms are bundles of grace placed there by God, and animated by the Holy Spirit. This immense sacred energy is always there for me; I can dip into it anytime; it only takes my act of will. I first develop the...
