Spiritual First Aid: Spiritual and Emotional Care in CrisisSample

We’re grateful that you are willing to engage the BLESS method with those around you. We wanted to end the week with hope and a blessing. Going through or watching someone go through a crisis is difficult. It’s difficult to wrestle with pain and loss and doubt. While we won’t have all the answers to the questions that arise during a crisis, we can seek to be helpful through being humble and offering practical presence. As Jesus said in John, we will have trouble in this world. But, we can take heart for he has overcome the world (John 16:33). So, while it’s difficult, we have hope. We carry with us the hope of Christ, the one who overcame the pain and brokenness of this world and is in the process of making all things new.

As we close this week, we pray the words of Numbers 6:24-26 over you:

“The Lord bless you and keep you; the Lord make his face shine on you and be gracious to you; the Lord turn his face toward you and give you peace.”

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The BLESS Method is Spiritual First Aid’s assessment and intervention framework for humbly helping and providing practical presence. BLESS represents the first letter of each of the five core needs (Belonging, Livelihood, Emotional, Safety, and Spiritual needs) that Spiritual First Aid was designed to assist. To learn more about Spiritual First Aid, visit spiritualfirstaidhub.com.