New Life Counseling Inc.

01/31/2023

12/24/2022

“If you only knew the gift God has for you..” -Jesus. (John 4:10a)

Maybe you’re like me and this hurting woman Jesus spoke to at a well one day, sometimes all we can see is the pain. The lens of our life zooms in on where it hurts most, where it’s most wrong. And I wonder, in all our magnification of that distorted pain, what are we missing? How much goes unseen or not enjoyed? What gift is our Creator trying to give us who stumble in the dark? How is He to get our attention? To nudge and shift our perspective just a little to see glimpses of His love and yes, purposes prevailing even with or despite the pain?

It’s not that suffering is not real and pain-filled. Pain, as we all know by heart, is a very real reality on this side of heaven. It’s blinding, scary and confusing. We often get lost in the lens of its distorted narrative and as a means of trying to keep ourselves safe and secure, we zoom in. Zoom in on perceived threats, assumed harm, and we drowned there in the darkness of our own imagination. All of us blind. All of us in need of real true light and sight. Dear Jesus please help us!

Something I’ve told my youngest daughter, her whole life is that Love is everywhere! And that Love always wins in the end. This Christmas, my prayer for everyone is that we will zoom out enough from our own pain, and all the unjust things and see the beauty of our Creator. See God, Love Himself. The One who loves you too much to ever leave you alone.

This Christmas let’s open our eyes and hearts to see our Savior who came and who still comes for us. He comes to rescue and save all of us who are blind, lost, broken, wounded and confused. To reveal a love that lights the way home. A Love that never fails, weakens or lets go of you!
So hold on, zoom out and let Love Himself give you eyes to really see.
See, and enJOY what’s been unseen, but never withheld.
Love always wins!
Merry Christmas all!!

09/23/2020

Let go of the hard, so you can embrace the rest.

08/28/2020

Acceptance is the goal of necessary and healthy grief, in its own time.

07/19/2020

Great services and people!!

Let go of pain so you can grab hold of joy

05/09/2020

For those of you deciding whether to forgive, here’s a great definition of what forgiveness is and is not.

10/05/2019

Change is inevitable. Change can sneak up on you and scare you or it can gracefully welcome you to a new season of hope and purpose. All transitions in life, whether it’s a new baby, new job, new stage of life, new relationship, family or any one of the other myriad of changes this life brings that require a brave “new normal”, will also offer us a choice.
Will we see only the death and not the possibility of a new life? Can we try to look past the pain of the loss of one season so we can choose faith and stretch to courageously trust that this death and ending are in actuality the very seed necessary for resurrection life, meaning and purpose for the next season of life? There is a time to grieve and mourn what was lost, but as the wind blows, the leaves gracefully let go. Can we too surrender in gratitude for what once was, so we can then welcome the next new season with open arms of hope?
Remember, we have to let go in order to move forward.
“I focus on this one thing, leaving the past behind...I press on” -Apostle Paul (Philippians 3:12-13)
“God causes all things to work together for the good of those who love Him and are called according to His purpose”. Romans 8:28
Know this; you are loved. You are chosen and you are called to purpose!

04/03/2019

Peace be still. Wait and watch for what only He can do.

01/14/2019

“Though no one can go back and make a brand new start. Anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending.”
-Carl Bard