Repairing Trauma: Too Much, Too Soon, Too Fast (Guest Speaker: Jim Miller)
John 4:9-15
I graduated from Azusa Pacific University with a major in Psychology. My major prof encouraged me to go to grad school; I found San Francisco State U. and there I did my internship at the Haight-Ashbury Free Clinic, Psych Annex. My first professional position was as a Psychologist at the Youth Center at Beloit, KS. Five years later we moved to Portland where I had accepted the position of Clinical Director of Alpha House, a residential drug treatment program. Then to the Adult Day Treatment Program at Providence Portland. Later I was the Hospital Liaison at Clark County Community Services where I worked with the Civilly Committed patients when they were sent to Western State Hospital. I have been retired since 2008 and enjoyed teaching gardening at community colleges and now my own garden and my bonsai collection in my greenhouse. I am the proud father of my children and "PaPop" to Desmond.
John 4:9-15 (NRSV):
9 The Samaritan woman said to him, “How is it that you, a Jew, ask a drink of me, a woman of Samaria?” (Jews do not share things in common with Samaritans.) 10 Jesus answered her, “If you knew the gift of God and who it is that is saying to you, ‘Give me a drink,’ you would have asked him, and he would have given you living water.” 11 The woman said to him, “Sir, you have no bucket, and the well is deep. Where do you get that living water? 12 Are you greater than our ancestor Jacob, who gave us the well and with his sons and his flocks drank from it?” 13 Jesus said to her, “Everyone who drinks of this water will be thirsty again, 14 but those who drink of the water that I will give them will never be thirsty. The water that I will give will become in them a spring of water gushing up to eternal life.” 15 The woman said to him, “Sir, give me this water, so that I may never be thirsty or have to keep coming here to draw water.”
Queries:
What are issues I need to address?
What strength and tools do I have to use?
How can I support others, the planet, and myself to heal?