If you did not know, I am going to graduate school to receive my masters in Counseling Psychology. I am also attending a school that integrates faith into my classes. I have had a lot of questions on why this is important to me and today in class I realized why.
If I did not believe in the Resurrection of Jesus, then I could not be a counselor.
Now I am not saying you can only counsel people if you believe in God. I am saying that I could not counsel people if I did not believe in God.
I realize that as a counselor I have to believe my clients can die to their habits, tragedy, issues, whatever you want to call it. And then I need to believe they can rise again from death.
If you are not tracking with me, then I am sorry. Putting this idea to words is difficult.
To make more sense I will give you an example from my life:
My first few weeks in Seattle were more difficult than I expected. I did not realize until lately that I had entered into depression and it was taking me to my grave. It seeped into every aspect of my life and I lost a little bit of who I was. Then one day the depression ended-it entered its death and I rose again back to the person I remember.
The Resurrection story is so important to my career.
I'm curious on how faith is integrated into your own career.
"I realize that as a counselor I have to believe my clients can die to their habits, tragedy, issues, whatever you want to call it. And then I need to believe they can rise again from death. "
ReplyDeleteLove the way you put this. Really, really good.