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About 2 years ago, we lost our 47-year-old son to suicide. Words cannot describe how devastating his loss is to us. Even more so, we cannot begin to understand how helpless and depressed he must have felt to end his own life.  The thought keeps coming back….If we had only known. We would have done anything to… Continue reading Special Note

Sin. Such an ugly word isn’t it? It makes you cringe and harden when you hear it. It seems fanatical, maybe? It’s a word no one wants to use to describe an activity or behavior that is known to the world as, let’s say, not good. I purpose today, that these “not good” behaviors or… Continue reading #1 Acceptance

Are you a People Pleaser? Do you find yourself always striving to meet other’s expectations of you? I bet there are some of you who don’t realize you are doing this, but you are living in a way that is costing you your life for the sake of achieving the approval from others. Doing this,… Continue reading #12 Service

This is likely a topic that you have heard before yet have a hard time implementing. It may be hard believing you are worthy of forgiveness or maybe you don’t know how to forgive others and so it gets pushed away. Sometimes, we may have experienced something that has hardened our hearts and we don’t… Continue reading #8 Forgiveness

Thanksgiving is one sleep away and I am pondering the many things I have to be thankful for. It has been a year and 4 months since my brother committed suicide. One year and four months since life as I knew it flipped a 180. Before July 2022 I would have told you life is… Continue reading Thanksgiving 2023

There is nothing too big for God’s grace. There is nothing we have or can do that was or can be hidden from him. He waits with open arms for our arrival to deliver us peace as promised. Seek Him and find freedom from the trials of this world. You are not the only one… Continue reading #1 Acceptance

It’s Saturday morning, the end of a busy week, but my mind keeps playing the reel of everything that took place. Worse yet, my mind is already writing next week’s list including the items I didn’t get done. Let alone, thinking, “what can I get done today.” Today being Saturday. Anyone else feel this way… Continue reading #11 Self Discipline

My sister-in-law and I were visiting this weekend and she shared that a close friend of my brother’s had expressed to her that he was very depressed. If you have read my testimony, you know my brother committed suicide in July 2022. His dear friend is now experiencing, or at least, now sharing that he… Continue reading #8 Willingness

I have been searching for a blog this week but it has been difficult to focus on much other than the Israeli war. So much fear and sadness surround this war that it consumes most of my thoughts during moments of stillness. Fear is brought about by the potential for terrorism here at home. Fear… Continue reading #3 Faith