Wednesday, February 4, 2009

wise, not sick

we went to a marriage conference this weekend at our church. the speaker, dr. guy richardson is the president of RTS, a seminary in jackson, ms where my husband got his mdiv (master of divinity).

the pres is also a licensed therapist with several lmnop degrees by his name and it was, as our pastor said on sunday morning, a "rich" time of learning.

his wife denise spoke as well and i hope to take my notes and make them succinct for my journal this week because there were so many one-liners to remember.  maybe i'll blog about some of those but one to begin with is this:

those who seek counsel aren't sick, they are WISE.

and then he supported his statement by all sorts of scriptures. he wasn't talking about how Jesus came to save the sick, not the well. that's a different line of thought, also true of course! in this case, he was encouraging us to take advantage of the different levels of counsel - from friends, to older women or men in Christ, all the way to the professional level when needed.

we're not sick, we're wise when we seek counsel. i love it!

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