Personhood and Presence: Self as a Resource for Spiritual and Pastoral Care (Biblia.com)

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The purpose of this book is to enhance the quality of spiritual and pastoral care offered by ministers by fostering a reflexive caring relationship—the greatest asset for pastoral care. Offering oneself to other people in order to provide companionship along the road of life is an act which is both challenging and yet potentially life enhancing.

again. Ruth Burgess, in her poem Risk-Taking, describes God as a risk-taker who created us out of love. God risks, we risk and when we grow through such risk-taking, God shares and rejoices in that, too. You are a risk-taker God an experimental potter a wild artist a sculptor of passion an adventurer a poet of justice and truth. Yours is an ongoing creation growing, changing, dancing, a story that is shaped in the telling, a life that is pregnant with joy and with pain. And you made us, in your energy,

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