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4/17/2006
"Miracle"
----Original Message-----
From: Reese Butler [mailto:reese@hopeline.com]
Sent: Tuesday, April 25, 2006 9:48 AM
To: frank@docdel.com
Subject: Thanks to All!
Dear Frank,
Ten days ago, when you shared my message on the PostSecret Blog that the HopeLine needed urgent help, the most amazing thing happened - over 600 people responded with donations totaling over $30,000.00!
At our darkest hour, days from filing for bankruptcy, all of you saved us. We appreciate all your support; every dollar, every personal note, every thought and prayer are important to us.
This is a miracle.
Warm regards,
Reese Butler,
reese@hopeline.com
Founder, Kristin Brooks Hope Center
Obviously these folks need continued support. Give a little or a lot if you can.
And finally:
a few DANGER SIGNS OF SUICIDE:
Talk about suicide
Statements about hopelessness, helplessness or worthlessness
Preoccupation with death
Suddenly happier, calmer
Loss of interest in things one cares about
Unusual visiting or calling people one cares about
Making arrangements; setting one’s affairs in order
Giving things away
2 comments:
except for the 'talk of suicide', this list is describing me to a T...
I have been very close to suicide a few times in my life, but 3 things have always turned me around.
1. My birth Mom & others have always said suicide is the one sin God can't forgive (because you can't ask for forgiveness afterwards).
I don't know if thats true or not, and to some ppl it probably makes sense. But I believe we will meet God face to face 'on the other side' in some way at some time. Couldn't a person ask His forgiveness then? I dunno, but in the chance we don't get the opportunity to ask for the forgiveness & receive it, I'm just not taking the risk. My fear of disappointing God is greater than any thing i might go thru here on earth.
Maybe by aborting His plan and purpose for our life, it shows Him we don't have enough faith in Him.
2. At one of my lowest points, someone somewhere pointed out "we don't know whats waiting for us on the other side, it may be worse than what we are trying to get away from on this side".
Now, THAT one really put the fear in me.
And that is the one I try to share with anyone who is even remotely depressed enough to consider leaving this life on earth.
3. My faith in God and His promises that He will take care of me (& all of us), and that "this too shall pass". Knowing from experience, the clouds do move away and the sweet sunshine of life DOES come back just when we least expect it.
When we hit rock bottom, there's only one place left to go and that is up!
Many times just taking a good long hot shower, putting on new clean clothes and fixing our makeup and such is all it takes to snap a person out of the suicide mode. Something about the negative/positive ions that are produced by the rushing water helps to wash away the negative energy that is hurting us.
And a little something I learned along my lifes highway. At times under the heavy stress of grief, i have grabbed scissors, not to harm myself or others with, but to cut my hair off.
It would always make me feel much better, like cutting the grief away opened the way to healing and moving forward.
I've learned, from the Bible, that is actually an old practice from way way back in time. People in their grief would "shorn" their hair.
More recently, I've learned that as in everything else in life, hair is energy, it's old energy our bodies have pushed outwards. Anything that happened to us while the hair was growing is embedded in the energy of the hair. By cutting it off, we are cutting off the negative energy and allowing new fresh energy to grow.
I have a friend with very long hair, down to her hips, who is 'stuck' with the pain of a long-ago, failed marriage, with the emotional scars and insecurities it produced. If only she would cut her hair, it would release all that negative energy, but she loves the attention her hair gets her so she won't cut it (sheesh, it WILL grow back, ya know!)
Most of all, we have to stay close to knowing God loves us and wants the best for us, and keeping our faith in Him.
I agree, I agree, I agree.
At some points in my life I HAVE to get in the water. It's a compulsion.
And you might have seen a 'few' pictures of me around with a shaved head..... :)
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