A Clear Way Forward?

There are times when I sit through my sessions with my counsellor and I cannot see a clear way forward and feel helpless. Then God assures me that I stumble around in the dark because he sees a clear way forward for me.

Yesterday's counselling session was as good as it can get, it is the penultimate one and we had an opportunity to review the progress I have made. The counselling service the Treetop Bereavement Service, in my view, provides a valuable contribution to those of us grappling with the reality of loss. The remarkable thing about it is that for many who access it it is free of charge. For those of us who can raise the counselling fee it is money well worth it.

I suspect that for many Christians, of the 'born again' and Pentecostal variety, which I belong to and in particular of the African extraction, this sort of counselling is simply unheard of. But I have found great value in being apart from my Pastor peers and friends and sharing in a space, the pains and the hollowness of twin loss.

Yes I am acutely aware of God's word, 'that joy comes in the morning' but it does also speak about the endurance of weeping and does not place a time line or limit on it but only gives the assurance that joy will come afterwards. I am certainly looking forward to my joy.