I'm honored to be part of a community that handles its stuff with such humanity and clarity.
I'm not going to dive into a discussion already expressed beautifully but I wanted to 'like' this:
I often find wisdom and insight in the most unexpected places. So now I expect it.
I loved hearing Laura's story about her Christian clients. This has been my experience as a non-Chrisitan working in a lot of Christian environments.
When I was at Loyola, in a pastoral counseling program, I received so many gifts of wisdom from people I would otherwise never know/entertain.
At some point, I actually convinced myself that the following sentence I say to myself all the time was actually scripture...it is not. No idea where I got it.
"Suffer gently the fool, for he has the ear of God."
By God, I mean all/anything potentially outside what we think we know.
Mostly, it just reminds me that there is a lot of stuff that I am happy to know when I have the chance to know it, regardless of how I come to know it!