Now, I am not going to go through every single conversation and every single realization I had during my next 3 years of counselling.
It was 3 years of consistent visits. Every fortnight I would head off to my sessions. It had become an integral part of my life. I still to this very day maintain my mental health by seeing my Psychologist 3 times a year. I am a very firm believer that maintaining good mental health is as important as maintaining good physical health.
As I began sharing and talking through each and every situation and sifting through whether indeed this was truth or not I became more aware of how things could have been so incredibly different for me.
I began to realize just how much I had been protected my entire life. Yes, there were a lot of terrible things that I had lived through, but as I journeyed through each session I became aware of how much more serious the situation could have been. To this day I cannot put my protection down to anything other than the hand of God.
I know people will say, co-incidence, but it was not and is not. I made some really bad choices in my life and I certainly didn’t live my life acknowledging God. I had had some brief appearances at Sunday School, but by the time I was a teenager, stopping at the local pinball joint was a far better option. As long as I kept my eye on the time to make sure I got back home about the time Sunday School would finish – no one was any the wiser.
Did I believe the stories they told? Well, yes but they were simply stories just like a history lesson. The people in these stories existed a very long time ago and they were all so incredibly good. Nothing I read impacted my world or changed the way I looked at life.
It wasn’t until some-time later – as you have read that I began going to church and began to have a greater understanding of who God was/is.
Captivating Freedom 