The counselee tries to crouch behind the Rock of Ages, seeking refuge from the storm but they don’t see the cleft and the club and the companion that the Rock of Ages has provided for them…
Capture the picture in your mind—that one: the counselee who doesn’t come back. She slithers away into the world’s woeful wasteland. I sigh as I see her leave. Does it make you sorrowful, indifferent, angry? Should we simply dismiss it with an ‘O well, the Lord is sovereign’? Sometimes, yes. After all, we cannot lock the door and make them stay. So, perhaps sometimes “goodbye” is the right salutation, but occasionally, the loss of a counselee should make our heart ache. If we truly weep with those who weep and mourn with those who mourn, the fleeing counselee presents the opportunity and the occasion. A counselee could leave for a variety of reasons, but these are the three that float to the top for me:
The counselee doesn’t understand the counselor’s solutions. The counselee disagrees with the counselor’s solutions. The counselee thinks the counselor’s solutions are unnecessary.
These perceptions potentially point to these roots:
The counselor has outdated counseling approaches. The
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