1. What was the first time you received money as a gift or reward?

2. What was your earliest instruction about money?

3. What was your first experience of money as an offering?

4. Consider the place money had in your childhood:

    a. What view of money did your parents have?

    b. Did you feel deprived or privileged?

    c. How are those feelings influencing you today?

5. Consider your changing attitudes toward money over the years and what influences have affected the change?

6. Consider your own feelings:

    a. Are you fearful about the future?

    b. Is money security to you?

    c. Do you feel guilty about the money you spend?

7. Consider your personality:

    a. Are you a "nothing ventured nothing gained" person or "better safe than sorry" person?

    b. How does your personality influence your approach to money?

8. Completing my story:

    a. What have I learned about myself during this reflection?

    b. Where is God's spirit in my relationship to money?