it's official...

...i am a counselor...?!

i have begun to contact some of my students to set up meetings with them and i am finding that i am SO excited to meet with them!

then, immediately the excitement plunges into a bundle of nerves and terror and the overwhelming idea that they will be looking at me to ask good questions, listen well and help them make their lives a little bit better.

i think i can do it!  not perfectly, perhaps not even very well at first... and i'm glad i won't be alone (thank goodness for a supervisor and jesus).

what a privilege i have, to be invited into the intimacies of one's life.  i hope that as they hand me their book, that i can open its pages, turn them gently and hold it with carefulness and honor.

finally!  i'm doing what i want to do!