New Series: Good Behavior
Here is our first post in the series: Why Do We Eat Our Own? We will be reviewing a series of behaviors which can break down walls, build true community, and lead to increased relationship with God and others.
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Welcome to our blog “A Long Days Journey… Into Wholeness: Musings of a Wounded Healer”! We are Kairos Transformations: we are leaders, counselors, spiritual directors, coaches, and we have all been both wounded and healed. Kairos is the Greek word for the appointed time or season, it is not just chronological time (chronos) but the right time, God’s time. The truth in God’s word is transformational and we hope you believe that too or you wouldn’t have chosen ministry as your vocation. Here is the way we see things in a nutshell: People are hurting, pastors are overwhelmed and burnt out, seminaries often don’t prepare pastors for the challenges they face, and we really want to help! Not only that but we have been preparing and helping pastors just like you navigate those very challenges and obstacles your seminary training just didn’t cover. So come back and visit, leave comments, and even ask questions about some of the trials you are facing. Our guess is there are many other pastors out there wondering the same thing, YOU might even help THEM by asking your question. Life is a journey and we need each other if we are going to not only survive but THRIVE! Pastors have been entrusted with a great deal of responsibility and influence in guiding people in their spiritual journeys. It is a wonderful privilege and can sometimes be a heavy burden, one which they don’t need to carry on their own. 4Pastors.com is a place to find encouragement and support. Kairos Transformations is an organization dedicated to supporting pastors, providing resources, and being a source of healing and wholeness. All are welcome who are truly seeking support and desire to be a light in this world. Blessings to you! Come back soon!
A Long Day’s Journey
Eugene O’Neill wrote a play called “A Long Day’s Journey Into Night” (http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/longdays/summary.html) The basic theme is that there have been a long string of ordinary days where a family’s brokenness has compounded until one night it all comes to a head as there is a realization that members of this family, and indeed the family itself, are dying. As believers we have a hope that didn’t exist for the Tyrone family in O’Neill’s play. We have a hope in a God who loves, heals, and redeems all our brokenness. However, for many we want that journey from wounded and broken to whole to be an easy or even instant journey. Sometimes God chooses to miraculously heal however, for most of us the journey is a long string of ordinary days where we are engaged in the mundane activities of living, that we discover God has been healing us. We are fellow travelers on this same journey. Welcome to the Long Day’s Journey! May you find encouragement and hope as you journey!
How we can stop being cannibals?
In the previous post I talked about how we have treated our own when they fall, we attack and devour them. There is hope for us and we can be different. The goal is to learn how to truly seek the benefit of the other. We are to restore each…
Why Do We Eat Our Own?
It is a coarse saying “eating their own”, but it describes and all to often experienced behavior in the collective we call the church. It is the moment when a person who has either willingly admitted or having been found out admits to some sort of impropriety or “ungodly” behavior.…
Impossible People
What do you do when you come up against impossible people? Whether it be in our individual lives or in our church families there are people who seem to live to make our lives more difficult and it can seem that no matter what we do or say we just…
A Fast, A Manipulation, and A Tune-up
In my last post I talked about Phil 2:12-13 as it applies to “working out our salvation”. The emphasis of those verses isn’t our effort but God’s. It isn’t our plans or desires or purposes but God’s which are completed. This is where we find the intersection with our understanding…
Working Out Our Salvation
I just recently had an epiphany that has put some pieces of the puzzle together for me that had been existing out in the ether with no place to land. Growing up in the church you learn all about various spiritual practices and disciplines and fasting is one of those…
Managing Expectations
The minute we are born there are multiple people with expectations regarding our lives. The pressure to perform or to become just builds over time and with those from others we add our own. However, God doesn’t have expectations of us. God knows what we will or will not do…
Expectations need a Time In!
Have you ever made a decision to do something because it was “expected” and later resented having done it? It is difficult in the best of times and circumstances to manage the expectations of others and ourselves. It is really easy to get caught up in these expectations and forget…
Lenses and Filters- Pt. 3
What remains in the midst of all of our misunderstandings and miscommunications is for those who desire to truly help other people, whether that be as a vocation like therapist, counselor, pastor, teacher, etc. or as a part of the course of their life, it is important to learn to…
Lenses and Filters- Pt. 2
I recently went through a situation where I was trying to explain to a friend what has been going on, in essence trying to relay my experiences. But from the get-go no matter what I said, this person was always going to see whatever I said in the same light.…
Lenses and Filters
People see the world through the lenses that have been created by their experiences, what they believe, and what they have been taught. We begin to go into circumstances with preconceived notions about how things will work and how we should behave based off of that. There are definitely some…
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