Therapy . . .

Ever since my DH started working at a mental health and counseling center, I tease him about needing to be evaluated! We could all probably stand to be evaluated! Even though, Rick runs the financial end of this clinic, he does occasionally get opportunities to visit with people who have benefited from the services the clinic offers. Please keep in mind, this is a full-scale clinic - offering counseling to children placed in foster care, to men and women facing addiction (which has been very real in our family), to multiple personalities (schizophrenia), to crisis care such as suicide and domestic violence.

The clinic even provides a crisis house - a fully stocked home ready to accommodate the needs of someone who has to leave a crisis situation. This clinic has counselors who offer to help people gain healing and hope.

Where are the people of God?

I guess this is my post of repentance, confessing that I would just as soon avoid someone else's chaos and crisis because there is a residual affect on my own personal being and quite frankly, I'm sick of other people not having it together! I'm sick of people I consider friends, only calling me when their life is in crisis.

THEN, I realize that I don't have it together either. Did I yell at my children anytime this week? YES. Have I plunged into food for comfort? YES. Have I prayed a righteous prayer but lived an unrighteous life? YES. Did I share the love and hope that is found through salvation in Christ with ANYONE? NOPE!

Thank God our tax dollars go to clinics like the Cowley County Mental Health and Counseling Center, because I, as a Christian, have shirked my responsibility to God's people - the weirdo at Wal-Mart, the neighbor who shoots semi-automatic weapons at night, the other neighbor who has enough junk in his front yard to start a salvage yard, the other neighbor who strongly dislikes me, the four neighbors I've not even gone to introduce myself to and I've live here two years, the sister-n-law who has battled drug addition for years, the friend who's life is unraveling before my eyes, the two different clients I have whose marriages are completely done.

James 1:27 - Religion that God our Father accepts as pure and faultless is this: to look after orphans and widows in their distress and to keep oneself from being polluted by the world.

If we as believers have been adopted into God's family through the salvation of Jesus, then those who have not are orphans - no spiritual home.

Lord, please forgive me for my self-righteous attitude that says that my world, life and relationships are just fine, better then most, but are simply too busy to allow someone else's life to invade my sanctified and holy space. Create in me a clean heart, O God, and renew a right spirit within me.

Thank you, friends! God's word says, that wherever two or more are gathered in His name, there He will be also - in today's modern technology, I believe that includes blogs!

Blessings ~

P.