by Chelsey Gordon
If you have been involved in domestic abuse intervention for any length of time, you have already felt the weight of this difficult ministry[1]. Whether you are counseling and caring for victims of abuse or confronting perpetrators and providing accountability and counsel on the long road of repentance, you know how heavy and hard these cases can be and how they can threaten to pull us toward resignation. In order to continue on with resolve, those providing care must care well for their own souls. While there are many aspects of personal soul care that could be mentioned here, I’ve chosen to highlight the five that have been most significant (and often most challenging) for me personally.
Learn to Lament. If you are not yet seasoned in the spiritual discipline of lament, now is the time to begin.[2] In domestic abuse intervention you’ll be entering painful places of ministry which contain many doorways to hopelessness and despair. While your heart may know the unseen realities of God’s sovereign plan of redemption, those realities can appear fuzzy and far off when the dysfunction and destruction we see so clearly and feel so viscerally are ever before us.
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