• Finding meaning in your illness.
• Drawing on your religious faith to help you cope with your illness and the stresses that can accompany it.
• Providing sacraments and religious rites, rituals, and practices that provide spiritual strength in crisis, as well as everyday living.
• Counseling for the emotional and spiritual distresses of illness and for the strain they add to relationships.
• Consultation for processing the teachings of your religious tradition regarding medical decisions, ethics, and matters of conscience.
• Support in dying and while facing death; and for families in their grief immediately following the death of a loved one.
• Being a bridge to your religious community or congregation, and to your clergy or spiritual leader.

God, grant me the
serenity to accept the
things I cannot
change, the courage
to change the
things I can,
and the wisdom to
know the difference.
Amen.

R. Niebuhr