By: Andie

Andie — Thu, 07 Jun 2012 03:56:18 +0000

This is a very tough one. Like most people I have been touched by suicide. Friends I grew up with lost their father/husband to suicide after he decided his family were better off with his life insurance than with him after his business went south. Another friend lost his younger brother, and his parents their beloved youngest son, after he took himself away to a lonely place in the bush and took his life for reasons no-one to this day knows. I have also lost work colleagues that I and others respected. Without dialogue we cannot expect people to really understand an issue and lack of understanding of the sorts of things that bring people to such a sad and dark place they feel left with taking their life is the only option. Certainly without dialogue your family member, friend, member of your congregation, work colleague, person you come across as they turn to a stranger in desperation, will never know that we want to find a solution to help them. If we don’t make the people that are going through these awful times understand that we want to reach out to them and bring them into a place of care and understanding, most will never reach out to us. As Christians surely we are called to reach out and touch others with understanding and love and if we don’t reach out from a place of dialogue and understanding then how can we reach out at all?

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By: Andie