Respected and dear Achen,
At first, I thank God for this opportunity I received to be part of this great group Akedah. I felt ‘Akedah’ is such an apt name for this initiative. This was a prayer answered for me. Recently, a few of my friends were sharing their family issues with me. Since I care about those families, I was always afraid to respond and whether my responses were helping them or hurting. I was hoping I had known some basic principles of counselling. And that’s when I saw this announcement in Achen’s YouTube channel. I signed up with a lot of enthusiasm.
In the first lesson itself when Achen explained what is not counselling, I realized I need a lot unlearning to do here. Achen, in all your classes, I felt your care, compassion and your Christian wisdom. I wish I had taken your parenting class while I was raising my children. I also liked the fact that everyone in Akedah is so passionate about helping others and the positive energy it produced even though we were all sitting miles apart. Looking forward to joining the Advanced level of this course.
Prayers and good wishes to Achen and all participants of this first class.