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'I Am Weary From Crying'
Many people suffer a post-holiday letdown. The season is over, spirits are often diminished. Disappointment that the holidays did not bring any solutions to chronic personal problems can lead to melancholy. In a different era, and for different reasons, the Psalmist (Ps. 60) gave a similar lament; he wrote that he was "sunk in despair." "Save me," he pleaded with God, "for the waters have come up to my neck. I sink in deep mire, where there is no foothold; I have come into deep waters, and the flood sweeps over me. I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes grow dim with waiting for God."
Sadly, these days after the holidays also see a spike in suicides. And so I want to share with you an article that I clipped years and years ago from a Newsweek magazine. It was written by Anne-Grace Scheinin; her mother's suicide led her to write the following:
"She taught me the most valuable lesson of my life; no matter how bad the pain is, it is never so bad that suicide is the only answer. It's never so bad that the only escape is a false one. Suicide doesn't end pain. It only lays it on the broken shoulders of the survivors. Ironically, my mother's final gift to me was not death, but life, a determination to live as she chose not to."
No matter how difficult life may be, you are not alone. You have a 'family of faith' that cares, and a God who will never let you go. |
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"And how can it be that in a world so full and busy, the loss of one weak creature makes a void in any heart, so wide and deep that nothing but the width and depth of vast eternity can fill it up!"
Charles Dickens, Dombey and Son | |
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Resumes THIS Tuesday
January 12, 2010
Dinner at 5:30 (In Faith Center)
Adults - $5, Children - 6-13 $3
Family Max - $15
Cayan will Resume
Next Tuesday, January 19
"The Book of Galatians" in the Sanctuary at 6:30 pm with Dr. Halverson
(repeated Wednesday mornings
at 10 a.m. in Hunt Chapel) |
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