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- Counseling started today. We are doing a specialized counseling for trauma called EMDR. It was kind of wacky but we trust the process and will participate without reserve. We think it will be helpful, but we'll sort of mock it and have fun laughing at how odd it is - which will help make the 80 minute drive seem shorter. Strange, strange stuff - I'll tell you that.
- One of our kids is really starting to be hit with grief. I don't want to tell all the internet world every thing, but please pray for our kids. (And I know you are - thank you.) Maybe you'll even know which one to pray for. Tonight was really the first night of talking through and feeling some major grief and we sure wish we could make it go away. It is so hard to watch our kids hurt and feel crazy. But unfortunately - the only way through it ... is through it. :( It sucks.
- Collette and her baby Esther (the 1st baby born on the Comfort Ship) - our miracle Mom and baby are back at Heartline. See the stunning Mom and Baby with Dr. Jen and Beth today :) God is good. This is hope. This is love.
May it be a Haiti that offers her the love of Christ, the gift of education, the benefit of medicine and the protection and comfort of a caring family.
Amen.
23 comments:
Praying for you and for each one of your beautiful children. EMDR definitely can seem a bit silly but I think it can be a helpful part of an often arduous, painful...yet beautiful process. :) May Jehovah Rophe (the God who heals) be especially close to you through this process.
As a member of the head-shrinking club, I agree with how freaky EMDR is - but sincerely hope it does something for you :0)
thanks for this.
AMEN!!!!!
T&T,
So thankful that you are all together working through everything. I'm glad that even though it seems like ages, not that much time has passed since Jan 12. Better to jump right in and get started healing.
XOXOXOXOX to P, I, H, N, P & L.
E-run
Praying with you through this. Love the pictures!! So precious.
Dear Tara,
Bless your heart! Thank you for being bold enough to stand for TRUTH. I am confused as well, I really believed AC was going to have a voice to do GOOD in Haiti, now I am wondering...We do not grow weary in well doing, for in due time we will reap a harvest...IF WE DO NOT GIVE UP. Thank you for being REAL, for sharing the deepest parts of your heart. I do not worry about your relationship with God. I know you are greiving and mourning, HE KNOWS what is deep inside you, so keep being REAL. People may stand in lofty places and tell you how to respond, but no one has walked in your shoes. No one else has your DNA, your personality, your burdens, your circumstances, therefore no other man or woman has the right to tell you how to feel, process, move forward.
My prayers are with you and your family as you work through your pain. He is with you, He is MIGHTY TO SAVE, I pray that you will feel His arms wrapped around you now.
Heather Baker
Praying as you all walk it out with Him. He is able. And you are willing. This is good. Enjoy the laughs through the pain. I take it as evidence of His great love for you all.
Thank you for sharing and being real. It's an encouragement to me in my every day simple boring life with the struggles I have the nerve to complain about. Such a small life I live compared to others.
In Him, Lisa
Every day when I read your blog, I smile and I cry and I pray for you. I don't think you realize how far your light shines. God has His hand on you and your family.
I've been following your blog for a few weeks now, praying for you all each day and crying with you as I read your updates. Today I laughed out loud about EMDR. I was a missionary in West Africa and after going through some traumatic things came back to the states and went through EMDR. You are right, freaky and funny! But it is extremely effective. I think you all have the right attitude, praying your healing process will be quick and full of grace.
I just wanted to say that you are still being prayed for as you walk through this valley. i'm so sorry that some feel the need to voice negative and unhelpful thoughts as to your faith...but am completely confident that God will NOT let you go - even when you (and i) question Him..or what He's allowed or how life is going, etc. He is NOT afraid of our weakness or questions or anger or grief. So keep plowing through whatever you have to go through. He WILL be faithful and loving and healing and will never leave you.
May you feel His gentle arms around you and the entire family as you work through these very dark times.
laura
I've gone through EMDR - it works! I lived all my adult life with undiagnosed PTSD. When I was finally diagnosed properly and went through the EMDR treatment, it was like a veil was lifted and even colors seemed to brighter. Good luck!
Hi Tara,
There's a lift in your voice! (So glad for the giggling.)
I hope you blog about EMDR a little more--I've read about it in the past, and thought it sounded really effective. I gather the eye movement part is similar to REM--the dream phase of sleep that's so healing.
Beautiful pics of Collette and Esther.
(((Hugs)))
AWESOME you are doing EMDR. The BEST therapy for trauma. So happy to Collette smiling and sitting up with Esther. I believe Esther's Haiti will be a stronger and better Haiti.
What lovely pictures of Mama and Baby~ Sweet to see goodness among all those that are still suffering.
EDMR, I've done it and the Lord used it to bring complete healing. That with other things completely healed me from years and years of trauma.
~Cinnamon
Livesays, my former college professors are hosting (and recording for later use) some webinars on how to help rehabilitate Haiti without creating long-term dependency, etc.
Focus on your own healing right now, but I hope maybe these will be a helpful resource for your future ministry when you get to that point.
http://chalmers.org/when-helping-hurts/webinar/haiti-02-2010.php
"the only way through it - is through it" Indeed. And may Jesus be SWEETER on the other side! Praying for your family as you grieve and heal!!!
Have heard lots and lots of good things about EMDR after hanging around in the ICAN community where lots of women have experienced horrible birth trauma. And still praying for you all . . . yes, through it is the only way to peace and joy when it comes to grief. Wade, slip, and slide--go through the muck and mire but feel the firm foundation of God's love down under neath all the ugliness on the surface.
Beautiful pictures of Collette and her baby! God bless them both!!
I've heard of EDMR and I've heard good things-- and who knows, the laughing may be a beneficial side effect!
Thanks for the update on Collette- I convinced our orthopedic to volunteer in Haiti based on her story! So you're getting more doc's to Haiti, just by writing. :)
Praying for you as you process the hard stuff and begin to heal.
We use EMDR with our daughter who had multiple traumas before coming home. It seems kind of weird, but it does seem to help. I think it's a lot like rocking. Rocking is calming.
God bless,
Julie
I agree with others who have commented: EMDR is silly-lookin' but it works. God used it among other things to heal me from a big big mess. I feel like I have my life back--literally. Not only was I not real functional in the depths of the mess, but at the lowest point I was intending to take my life. He is love and worthy of all our praise!
Psalm 30:2-3
O LORD my God, I called to you for help and you healed me. O LORD, you brought me up from the grave;
you spared me from going down into the pit.
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