Sitting Down With God

                               In the past week, I have had two friends from church come to me and broach the subject of suicide.   One of them was sharing her testimony of a time that she had thoughts of committing suicide the other had a suicidal thought just that morning.   Suicide is a very emotional topic for me.   In my personal life, I have dealt with my father’s suicide and an attempt at my own life when I was fifteen.                   It has taken me years to realize how precious life really is.   I find myself at the oddest moments, laughing when I should be angry and smiling when I should be sad.   The joy of the LORD is a balm to any soul.   But, here I am, with two women I care about and one of them is admitting that she is c...

Drawing: “Falling Down the Stairs to Save Time” by Sam Brown   www.explodingdog.com                   What is a friendship?   If you define friendship, it is the state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment to a person or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; amnity; Kindly aid, help, assistance , unity, conformity, harmony , etc.   I bolded the last three words because when you are around someone for long periods of time you become close with one another.   You don’t find many people just spending time with people that they have nothing in common with.   Don’t get me wrong, all of us have friends that are complete opposites of us, but there is some common ground that unites us.           The reason I am bringing this up is because of two things on my heart.   The first, being the popul...

Life is full of choices.   The most important choice I have ever made was becoming a Christian.   I made the choice to love an almighty God. The Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end.   Every choice you make has a consequence, some good and some bad.               When you choose to live for God; to proclaim off of every rooftop the love of His Son, you will be persecuted.   In being a Christian, we know what our reward is.   We know that no matter what troubles befall us on this earth, that in the end we win.   There are consequences to being a Christian: ·         You can no longer live a life full of debauchery: o    Drunkenness o    Lust o    Idolatry ·         You will lose friends o    The people you associated with are not going to change what they do because you have made a...