And let’s also not forget counseling and therapy and medication and spiritual direction and retreat and a million other things we might receive to keep us company along the way. Let’s leave behind any remaining stigma or unhelpful stereotype about counseling or therapy—what a gift God has given us in counselors and therapists, our guides through the darkness, our wise companions as we wait for the dawn. Let’s build meaningful, supportive, honest scaffolding around one another as we struggle against life’s challenges, as we wait for the dawn together.
