Love Across the Distance

Today, I had a nice chat with my friend who is also a fellow help provider. I told her about my new found adventure in the blogging arena. She just commented, "maayo [that's good]". I was expecting her to keep up with my excitement but instead she started to ask questions about my LDR (Long Distance Relationship). That was exciting too but that was not the thing I wanted to talk about at that time. Nevertheless, I entertained her point of interest and poignantly told her that she's back in Canada now. That's when she started to share how difficult it is to maintain a long distance relationship because she is currently into it. 

"You're not scaring me, are you?", I calmly commented on the messenger. She actually was ready to type a disclaimer that she's not scaring me. She was just trying to prepare me. She then shared her experiences and gave some advices on how I could keep the woman assured that I still love her and she still the one. I ended up pressing her to share more. It was evident in her descriptions that it was indeed difficult. But I admired her strength to honestly admit it wasn't easy. 

"Yes, it's not going to be easy. I have a lot of hard works to do." that's what I told myself. But wait, isn't it that more than our hard work, God's work would ultimately bring us to our destiny? I'm not trying to minimize the importance of my role to make the relationship work. I'm just trying to highlight God's role in making the relationship works regardless of distance. I'm not implying that It's not going to be difficult for us, I'm declaring that no matter how difficult may it be, because we believe it's God who brought us together we would endure it together with Him.

The challenge now is striking the balance between my faith and my work. I  think I already have enough faith on this matter. What I really need is to be generous of myself to demonstrate love, to practice honesty and to live with expectancy of knowing her more,discovering her being and appreciating her beauty inside and out.

We ended our chat with the exchange of "thank you" and "goodbye". My heart was filled with joy because someone who has been in the race ahead of me was willing to share her experience not only because she wanted me to learn from it but also because she sees me as someone who can identify with it and understands her journey.

I am convinced, It feels good to do soul-care but it even feels good to receive care for your soul. I just had one. I hope you will have yours as well. Practice mutual soul-care today!

The Cry of the Soul

I had been planning to start my own blog several times but I had difficulty starting since I didn't know what I wanted to write about.  Finally I have this blog now!

The name was inspired by my desire to be a part of God's mission in soul caregiving. In fact, my soul is a recipient of His loving care everyday. The desire then was strengthened with my experiences in the field of counseling both when I was still a student and now that I am so called a professional counselor.

During my practicum in my MA in Counseling, I had many opportunities to be with people whose soul were shattered; young and old, male and female, rich and poor. They share the same need, they feel the same pain, they shout the same cry! They need our care!

As a neophyte in the field of helping profession, I desire that the many unheard  cries of the lethally wounded souls  will be heard, and that they will receive care and experience healing. I am not dreaming of a perfect world, I only dream that people would learn to care even with the least of his/her fellow.

I hope that through this blog, my cry, their cry and your cry will be heard! 

And that shouts of joy will echo wherever we go!