Navigating
through Life Difficulties or through Difficulties in life
Preamble:
There are so many or numerous difficulties people are
made to encounter in life’s journey. It is also becoming increasingly difficult
for people to navigate through such difficulties on their own without
professional help or assistance.
This is the reason why we have the professional
mandate as chaplains to assist or help people to navigate profitably through
life’s difficulties and challenges which they are faced with as they journey
through life stages.
What a wonderful profession and unique opportunity to
serve humanity!
Life: Is defined as;
1.
As in being, that
which exist in any form, whether it be material of people, actual or ideal.
2.
Living existence
as distinguished from things without life.
3.
The state of
being which begins with generation, birth, and ends with death; also
the time being which this state continues.
4.
The union of the
soul and body and the duration of their union, sometimes proceeding to the
deathless quality of the soul.
5.
Certain way or
manner of living, with respect to condition, circumstances, character, conduct,
occupation etc.
6.
Something dear to
one as life existence.
Difficulty: Is defined as;
1.
The state of
being difficult or hard to do.
2.
Hardness or
harduousness, something hard to do or understand.
3.
That which
occasions labour requiring skill and perseverance to overcome, solve
or achieve.
4.
A hard
enterprise, an obstacle.
5.
A controversy,
falling out, disagreement, an objection etc.
Navigate: Navigating can be defined as:-
1.
Directing
carefully and safely.
Life’s difficulties or difficulties in life can
rightly be said to be the followings:-
1.
Hindrances to
God’s given life and purposes.
2.
Obstacles to the
smooth running of life.
3.
Blockages that
prevent actualization and fulfillment of life’s goals.
4.
Unnecessary diversion
from focus and achievements.
5.
Challenges
capable of truncating or changing one’s purpose for existence.
6.
Hard and
difficult situations, conditions and circumstances that require professional
skills and competence to solve.
7.
Confrontations
that seems to make life unbearable for people and make life distasteful.
How then can
we as Professional Chaplains assist or help people in Navigating through Life’s
Difficulties?
1.
We must first and
foremost identify the difficulties, challenges and obstacles they have.
2.
Give them proper
direction as to how to overcome such hindrances.
3.
Help them
circumvent obstacles or hindrances as water or river does to any obstacles and
beyond the obstacles continues its journey.
4.
Helping to find
needed solutions to problems that constitute themselves to obstacles or
hindrances.
5.
Only professional
chaplains who have the skills and experience will be able to help people
navigate through life’s difficulties.
The bottom line here again is adequate training and
competence which is gained through experiences. This is the more reason why we
of Association of Professional Chaplains in Nigeria and continent of Africa
emphasizes on adequate training for competent professional chaplaincy practice
and service delivery.
Many of the tasks and assignments we are called upon
to handle and perform can never be handled by quacks, proper and adequate
training is key to effective chaplaincy service delivery.
The understanding of every professional mandate by
practicing chaplains is of paramount importance as this understanding will aid
performance.
APCIN provides you the opportunity to become a
chaplaincy specialist if you so desire. Specialist chaplaincy professionals are
highly needed in various societies of our world.
Make up your mind to become one and contact the
undersigned for specialized training, you will be glad you do.
Archbishop Chap.
Prof. Mike-Jacobs
Professional
Counselor, Clinical Spirituotherapist and
Certified
Chaplaincy Educator in Private Practice
27th
March, 2019AD
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