God of the Counsellors

Being a Catholic priest of traditional kind, I am into the ethereal world of God and humans for a moment. Don't be put off, there are interesting mettles there too for the counsellors. The other day, Ms Sunita Menezes when speaking of her counseling experience in the class said something like this: When I have a difficult case at hand, I look up to heavens and pray. And there I always had a mighty power intervening to speak for me. It is in that traditions I dare to write this. Apologies apart, let me come to the point.

One of the interesting names that God of the Holy Bible addresses him/herself is "God of Abraham,God of Jacob, God of Moses". Let the sociologists and Bible scholars interpret it as they want; but for a psychological counsellor this means something else. Here is a God who is wanting to relate with individuals with empthy, or to walk in the shoes of men and women. God is not a unapproachable mighty awesome and benevolent power, to whom humans and the world is a play thing. But here is a God who is longing to relate with men and women in their territory. God does not relate with human beings at macro level, as humanity in general, but as individuals who "struts and frets his hour upon the stage" (Macbeth), as a God who partakes in the daily struggles of human reality. Thus we have the grant idea of incarnation of God - God becoming man and pitching his tent among humans.

This is not unique to Biblical experience of God alone. In the Srimat Bagavad Gita, God Krishna addresses Arjuna thus: "Istasthe Aham Sadimam twam prabannam" - You are beloved to me, so I shall tell you" the secrets of spiritual life. similarly, When Gita states,"Dharma-samthapanarthaya sambhavami yuge yuge" (I incarnate Myself at every juncture of time) to protect and uphold the world, are we not hearing of a God who is interested to be part of human reality, who is so concerned about the world and everything it contains?

Next time when we counsel we can pray to God saying,
God of Martin, or God of Ram" or "God of Sita" (or any other cliant),
come to his/her aid
to put right what has been distorted;
rebuild what is demolished;
re-paint what has been disfigured.