Can you find real healing in therapy? 

Can you find healing 'without' therapy?

The answer is a resounding “Yes” to both questions…but therapy sure can help.

The most important factor is 'you'…..do you really want to be healed?  Do you really want to be free and happy?  Most people would say 'yes' to that but too many people define happiness as simply the absence of pain.  If they have difficulty in relationships, they may just avoid real relationships and isolate, or move on to a new one as soon as trouble begins. Or maybe they just change careers, homes or hobbies looking for that elusive thing called happiness.

God has a plan for each of us and truly wants us to experience real happiness.  He starts us out in families with a plan that our parents will reflect Him to us…providing, protecting, nurturing and loving us.  But too often things go awry in families.  Even with the best of intentions, parents fall short.  Just like us, they are fallen human beings with hurts of their own that need healing. These foundational hurts are most often at the root of our problems.  We learn how to cope in difficult situations and those coping skills may work for us when we’re kids.  If we learned to deny that Dad drinks too much and it’s scary at home when we’re young, we can cope and go to school and play like the other kids. God is so good to allow us our defenses.  But as adults, those childhood defenses most often become our problems.

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“Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.”
~ St. Augustine

So, you have discerned that you are called to married life. Now what? Sit and wait for the Lord to place someone on your door step? After all, you have done the hard work of discernment, you were obedient to the inspirations that the Lord gave you. Now, it is time for God to act.

Only, He has not. You are still waiting. Now what?

St. Augustine teaches us to “Pray as though everything depended on God” but to “work as though everything depended on you.” You have discerned being called to married life, now it is time to discern "how" and "who".

God works with each of us in very different ways. After all, we are all His children. Every good and loving parent knows their children have different needs, different temperaments, are motivated by different means and respond differently to the challenges of life. How the Father works in the life of your best friend, or even in the life of your siblings, is very different from how He will work in yours. You have to learn to be attentive to the promptings of His Spirit and to listen to His voice guiding you and teaching you every step of the way.

There is so much pressure on us men of today to be successful. But what does being “successful” as a man really mean? Most of us men work very hard to be able to afford the (often very expensive) necessities of daily living. Many of us try to go above and beyond to provide additional comforts for our families and ourselves. Is having all of the latest technology, a sign of being successful? Or is it being physically fit and handsome and scoring with women? Or is it when we are envied by other men who wish they were like us? Is it all of the above, some of the above or none of the above?

What exactly does it mean to be a successful man?

 Today’s culture has bombarded us with it’s opinion of success. We see the “successful man” all the time in commercials, on TV and in the movies: wearing the best clothes money can buy, driving expensive cars, working out at the gym for the best body and having sex with “hot” women with no ties, no real connection and no discernible consequences. Just fun, fun, fun. It may all sound good on the surface, but what this culture has engendered is an epidemic of broken families, lonely people and the necessity to dispose of the natural results of these sexual exploits through the gruesome slaughter of innocent babies through abortion. We live in a culture of polarization of the sexes with neither one being able to trust as their wounds pile up.

On Tuesday (5/8/12) the members of the California State Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimony and voted to pass SB 1172. The Bill will now move forward to the California State Senate and, if passed there, on to the California State Assembly and can become a California State law. 

SB 1172 is a dangerous legislative initiative that would make it almost impossible to provide therapy for clients seeking assistance with their unwanted homosexual attractions.