Living Rock Counseling offers quality counseling services and clinical consultation to promote:
The often quoted Serenity Prayer of Reinhold Neibhur eloquently summarizes the path toward this peace:
God, give us grace to accept with serenity the things that cannot be changed, Courage to change the things which should be changed and the Wisdom to distinguish the one from the other.
Maybe you’ve heard the idea that many people are strong at the broken places. Have you ever wondered what that really means? The phrase “strong at the broken places” is likely to have originated in the writing of Ernest Hemingway. In Farewell to Arms, Hemingway wrote, “The world breaks everyone and afterward many are strong at the broken places.” How does one become strong at
Lift up your eyes upon
The day breaking for you.
History, despite its wrenching pain,
Cannot be unlived, and if faced
With courage, need not be lived again.
Give birth again
To the dream.
The horizon leans forward,
Offering you space to place new steps of change.