How our Creators Creations Can Help Your Counselees

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How our Creators Creations Can Help Your
Counselees
Mickeys Surgery Frog Friend
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This is only a starting point for your own
ongoing study ofGods Worldin light of Gods
Word(soli deo gloria)
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Do NOT believe anything I say,unless you agree
the evidence makes it worthy of your
trust.Proverbs 1415
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Review of my motives reasons

• NON-Dr. (BS, M.Div., AMP, NWJ)
• Ex-New Age, Evolutionary Ethologist
• Zookeeper / Animal Trainer (literally lions,
  tigers, bears, elephants, etc)
• Veterinary Assistant / Wildlife Rehabilitator
• Family Counselor (25 years)
• Church Planter / Pastor
• Science Teacher / Seminar Speaker
• Husband / Father of Six (my own litter)
• Creature in the image of my Creator

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THINK
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Creation is all around Counselees

• The Good, the Bad, the Ugly
• Unavoidable in the full context of counseling
• All of creation still belongs to God
• Even we counselors are merely creatures

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Remember Why Suffering?
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Dad, who made this day?
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Video Virtual Reality

• Todays new Trojan Toy Horse
• Movies, TV, PCs, Internet, Chat Rooms
• Video Games (especially the violent ones)
• What is their influence?
• Good, Bad, Both?
• What has been lost?

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Nature Creation Deficit Disorder?
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Creation Assisted TherapeuoRetreats!
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Naturally drawing close
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Drawing close to God and one another
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Yes, parents it is hard work
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But its worth it
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Alone with our Creator
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What about our Creators other nephesh creatures?
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But now ask the beasts, and let them teach you
and the birds of the heavens and let them tell
you . . . . in whose hand is the soul nephesh
of every living thing . . . .Job 127-8
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Gen 218 Not good

• For Adam to be alone
• Helper (nephesh companion)
• The need for Eve does not erase the animals
• Adam learned from them
• We, our counselees, and especially children can
  and should learn from them.

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Why do Apes Look Like Us?
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Bara 3xs 2 are for Nephesh

• Gen 11 - Space, time, matter, energy
• Gen 121 - Animals that can think and feel(not
  for plants which are merely machines)
• Gen 127 Human Beings(People nephesh animals
  were created to share Gods love in relationships
  His Way)

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If youd like your spouse children to greet you
at the door every time you come home, as if you
were the most important and wonderful person in
their life . . .
Forget it Get a dog!
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Why this considered a scandal?

• Michael Vick
• ABC News Photo
• Accused of Dog Fighting crimes
• Whoever would do this is wrong.

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Dear God,please help me become the person my dog
thinks I am!Sadly, even abused dogs still love
their human owners.
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Animals might bite, but . . .they never
intentionally hurt your feelings.
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Gods creature that saved my life.
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Gods creature that saved my life.
DOG Depend on God
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Suzys Ministry

• How Suzy saved my life
• Suzys state mental hospital ministry
• Suzy and our marriage (emotion barometer)
• Revealed parenting flaws before kids

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Shouldnt Christians be leading in the use of our
Fathers creations for hurting people?
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GingerOur newly rescued, AnimalAssistedTh
erapyDog
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DOG Example of Faithfully Depending on God

• If we can use Seeing Eye Dogs
• How much more Caring Heart Dogs

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Potential for Biblical Counselors

• Juvenile Delinquents
• Physical therapy
• Abused Children
• Autism / AspergerSs
• Schizophrenia, etc.
• Lonely Elderly
• Pediatric Hospitals
• Etc . . .

• Modeling
• Empathy, tr
• Learning
• Love motivated work
• Empirical Evidence
• Blood Pressure, Muscle tension, Behavioral
  relaxation
• Normalization of setting

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I just remember countless times patients were
depressed and seeing them smile for the first
time in several days when the dog arrives.
Advance for NursesMay 22, 2006
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A Companionable Zoo / Class / Office?

• The CARES program is a day-education
  environment for children who have been diagnosed
  with Autism, Asperger's Syndrome Motivation,
  Responsibility, Planning, Social Skills

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Learning to Love the Nephesh Way

• Matthew 22 Love God and Neighbor
• Nephesh capacity to think, feel, and love

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Explain this?
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Back to Eden / On to the New Earth
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Another Old Family Friend Jean
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Jean Up close personal
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Old friends Akela Rakshi
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A righteous man has regard for cares about the
life nephesh / soul of his animal, but even the
supposed compassion of the wicked is
cruel.Proverbs 1210
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What about unnecessary suffering?

• Dog Fighting?
• Slow kill hunting?
• Inhumane factory farms?
• Please remember pray about Proverbs 1210

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The wolf and lamb shall feed together,The lion
shall eat straw like the ox,.They shall not
hurt in all My holy mountain,"Says the LORD.
the heaven is my throne and the earth is My
footstoolIsaiah 6525-661
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Coming soon . . .
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Called to be a Protector

• Not a Predator
• or Parasite
• or Prey

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For more resources to study more on your own,
please see the links on my websitewww.soulcare.
org