Instrument metaphor

I find the metaphor of a musical instrument an apt one for the role that counselling plays in a client's life.  I can be like a master craftsman that produces a variety of instruments, helps clients to choose one that fits their preference, and assist them to calibrate the instruments.

What they need to do is put in the hours of practice, develop their style, and put up a good performance.  They may learn to play from people they admire or from friends and other sources. I become a backstage audience that takes pride knowing the instrument I made has supported the success of the musician.  As I make more instruments I can further improve my craft to help other musicians.

Where there is hatred let me bring love
Where there is doubt let me bring faith
Where there is falsehood let me bring truth
Where there is pain I'll comfort you

Where there is silence let me sing praise
Where there's despair let me bring hope
Where there is blindness let me bring sight
Where there is darkness let me bring light

And with these words I speak
Grant that I may not seek to be heard but to hear
To be consoled but to console
Not to be seen but to see, to be loved but to love

For when we give love we will receive
When we forgive love we'll find reprieve
It is in dying we'll be released
Make me an instrument of peace, of peace, of peace