A counsellor is your friend
Is on your side
Is patient with you
When you tend to hide
Will always understand
And take your part
Is there for you
Attentive mind and heart
But a counsellor will hold you
To the truth
This is no conspiracy
No cheating here forsooth
If you can find the words in you
That say it as it is
You’ll know a freedom straightaway
As true as you confess
Wanton words and wasteful words
Fly away on wind
Cruel words unkindly words
Tell us we have sinned
But say the word that truly speaks
What lies within your heart
And you will know release from pain
And make a brand new start
Brian Fahy
9 June 2022
+ To admit something is to allow a truth to cross the threshold into your home. To express a truth out loud to someone receptive is to grow in the grace of freedom. Often we live with so many unspoken truths inside us because we cannot bear the truth to be said. Being helped to voice the truth is the path to freedom of heart and mind and body. That is why words matter, and the Lord, the word of God, most of all.
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