Tips to Pastoral Counselling
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 |
|---|---|
| 31-Dec-2005 |
10 Tips for Lay Pastoral Counselling |
| 01-Aug-2005 |
Homesickness |
| 01-Jul-2005 |
Scatter Us, We Pray |
| 01-Jun-2005 |
Mingling with the Crowd |
| 01-May-2005 |
Gopeng Heart Cries |
| 01-Apr-2005 |
Handcuffed in Chow Kit |
| 01-Mar-2005 |
Poor and Afraid |
| 01-Feb-2005 |
Is It a Crime to be a Woman? |
| 01-Jan-2005 |
Do I Really Wish I Were Born a Man? |
| 01-Aug-2004 |
Practicality, Not Theology |
| 01-Jun-2004 |
Am I A Computer |
| 01-May-2004 |
Of Maids and Agencies |
| 01-Apr-2004 |
Trapped by Unknown Voices |
| 01-Mar-2004 |
Almost a Batterer |
| 01-Feb-2004 |
Grief |
| 01-Jan-2004 |
Why Cancer? |
| 01-Dec-2003 |
Submission To Domination |
| 01-Nov-2003 |
What's The Use of Higher Education |
| 01-Oct-2003 |
I Am A Mistress' Daughter |
| 01-Sep-2003 |
Mum Smothers Me |