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Personhood and Presence: Self as a Resource for Spiritual and Pastoral Care is unavailable, but you can change that!

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.

We have to seek to be attentive to that moment and to trust our creative abilities as we offer a verbal or an enacted interpretation of the other’s story and, where appropriate, utilize the Christian story as an interpretative tool. Seeking to timeously and sensitively facilitate interpretation or reframing of another’s experience is to utilize practical wisdom, but again it is also to risk getting it wrong. It is hard waiting for such moments to emerge during an encounter because they sometimes
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