SOMEONE UNTIED YOUR VOCATION
It just hit me, I did not serve the Lord as a civil servant, a political staffer, or social worker. Instead, I served an expectation, enculturation, and myself. It didn't always work out well. Then I heard someone talk about his friends serving by doing something I never thought of as service. He said something to the effect of, "some of his friends were serving by doing intense mental health work, and that was their part in healing the world." I resonated with this. CAC, Everything Belongs podcast, 2023-11-13). And there it is. This is what I do, intense trauma work. It is doing my part in healing the world too. I am beginning to see trauma work not as an affliction to hide, explain, or fix, but as a service we do, and express. Someone Untied Your Camel (Hafiz). Amen source:istockphoto