Holiness, not Happiness
I love to counsel people. I don’t love it because I feel like I have some grand ability to fix things other people can’t fix. I love counseling because I love helping people. I’ve described counseling like this before: counseling is helping someone unpack their life, sort out the things that need to stay, the things that need adjusting, and the things that need throwing away, then helping them put the pieces back where they belong. One of my favorite books in marriage counsel