Below are a couple of dozen short tips to Pastoral Counselling that might be useful for you!
The Prayer of a Drug Addict
“God, if You exist, hear my cry of despair! Come quickly and help me….my body is falling apart…my stomach churns, my muscles flop; yet with all the guts left in me, I’ll do anything in order to get my next shot…I need to feel good again! Yet, what is goodness? I don’t understand it anymore, for those who pass by shakes their heads at me, scold me or arrest me when, in desperation, I commit yet another crime. My companions are those very people who cannot help themselves or me… or those who torture me into selling drugs for them. If hell is like this, I certainly don’t want to go there… help me…please…”[The author’s recreation of the trauma of addiction that a late friend endured.]
For Meditation and Prayer:
John 3:16, Isaiah 53:4-6, John 8:7, 10-11
Date | Title |
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01-Aug-2000 |
Heart Cries! ["Listen to Their Heart Cries" is written to help us identify with others in need of God’s truth and grace] |
01-Sep-2000 |
Children Ordained For God |
01-Oct-2000 |
Parent-Teenager Seminars |
01-Nov-2000 |
Is There A God? [Young and Afraid] |
01-Dec-2000 |
Lord, Did You Thank Mary? |
01-Jan-2001 |
Enjoy The Roses Without Thorns |
01-Feb-2001 |
Were You Like My Son, Lord? |
01-Mar-2001 |
Cerebral Palsy |
01-Apr-2001 |
I Love God And I Love My Grandpa |
01-May-2001 |
My Students Are Pimps |
01-Jun-2001 |
Betrayed |
01-Jul-2001 |
Torn Between God and Husband |
01-Aug-2001 |
Will They Ever Understand |
01-Sep-2001 |
Compassion, Renewal, and Transformation |
01-Oct-2001 |
"Biblical or Non-Biblical" Not "Biblical or Secular" |
01-Nov-2001 |
God's Frozen Chosen |
01-Dec-2001 |
Child or No Child |
01-Jan-2002 |
Is it O.K. To Curl Up In Your Arms? |
01-Feb-2002 |
Lord, Do You Know What Separation Feels Like? |
01-Mar-2002 |
Broken |