Tag Archive | Suicide
Treat depression like cancer: purposeful
I’ve not had cancer, though I do know cancer victims. It’s an insidious disease that robs people of life. My purpose here is not to make light of cancer, but to help people understand that there is another form of cancer eating away at people and the cure requires treatment that is just as aggressive [...]
He was 45; He only wanted to feel better
He was 45. He only wanted to feel better.. There’s really nothing I can add to this blog post. I discovered it when I learned that a blog post of my own had been linked from this one. I would encourage anyone and everyone to read it and take it to heart. We’re all called [...]
The value of friendship: Priceless
EDITOR’S NOTE: I’ve seen this before and suspect there might be some truth to this tale. It’s something that’s been floating around the Internet and e-mails for some time. I took the liberty of editing it a little and reposting it here. It fits well with a previous blog I posted on how we can [...]
How can the church be more intentional?
I heard a very good message this morning in church that included a word typically not uttered by a pastor from the pulpit. In fact, the word he used could probably be listed among the top 10 words pastors are discouraged from using on Sunday morning. Suicide. The context was Judas at the end of [...]
Suicide prevention through hope in Christ
I wonder how many of our friends who’ve come to that dark crossroads in their lives and decided upon the path to death would not have chosen it had we been more purposeful or available to them. I’ve learned of or known several people over the past couple years who have made the decision to [...]
It’s not the divorce, but the rejection that hurts the deepest
A little more than two years ago I experienced a pain unlike any other pain I’ve ever felt. The symptoms had been there for years leading up to this moment in time when my world went momentarily black and my knees bucked under me. The next 30 minutes was, quite literally, the most physically painful [...]
Without an answer
I guess there’s just some things we’re not meant to know. I guess I can only empathize with the pain he must have been in and the dark place he was in prior to his decision as I’ve stared at that dark door and had to make the choice to enter or turn away.
