Moments with Dr Steve – Number Thirty-nine
Through Gates of Fire – Number Seven
What’s a Former Drunkard to Do
Post the God Encounter.
In the work that I do…
The session work – the intense internal battle scenes are so real and so visceral.
You have in the octagon…
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The Practitioner – the one that represents ‘Healing’ and Soul-adventure
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The Participant – the one that brings folly in a variety of forms, shapes and sizes
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The Conflicts – large, small, medium-sized – but always consequential
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The Others – the harmed folk whose presence is felt – but whose bodies are presently absent
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The Soul-shredders – the internal destructive agents that by nature are relentless and constant and then – oh so caustic in their capacity to urge and nudge The Participant to seek and do harm
This is my work.
I am not alone…
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Pastors and lay-leaders
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Healers and practitioners
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Therapists and addiction counselors
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Marriage and relationship counselors
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Psychologists and psychiatrists
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Medical practitioners
Et Al and on and on.
The healing community seeks to device ways to first engage these battles – and then – and this means, directly invoking the presence of God – winning some of these battles.
Tommy – the adoptive father of the baby – Flash Bastion – the messianic character – returns from his God encounter with this internal battle raging.
Soul Delight
His soul is full of heavenly aroma. He is fresh off his first – and primary – soul encounter with the living God.
His soul is brimming and then overflowing with – the froth that such encounters multiply.
But now…
He is confronted with…himself again.
He is reminded of ‘who he really is’…
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A worthless bum – has no job, no work and lives on the borrowed generosities of those caring few who help his family – really because of the value of his doting wife
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A penniless drunk – a man who swills vodka and gin like children eat cotton candy at fairs and street carnivals
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A discarded one – a man that few can tolerate his stench and certainly disdain his vulgarities
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