Trauma Ministry

At certification training for children’s trauma healing groups. Wonderful fellowship among colleagues in training with me.

Experienced a wonderful performance of Handel’s Messiah at Christ Evangelical Presbyterian Church in Houston last night. When the oratorio reached the movement “For unto us a child is given,” I was reminded of the negative impact of labeling people. Labeling diminishes the possibilities and interactions and understandings among us. AND when the chorus came to WONDERFUL COUNSELOR, MIGHTY GOD, ETERNAL FATHER, PRINCE OF PEACE from Isaiah 9:6, I realized that those labels have no limits in describing the coming Messiah. As we refrain from labeling the trauma survivors with whom we minister, we can be confident as the Face of God and Body of Christ to them, they are experiencing the unlimited power of the ONE who is in the process of healing them. What anticipated joy!