A student from my school posted a threat online that they would shoot up our school last Tuesday. I learned about it on Monday. The following 24 hours tested my ability to focus on God, and the students He put in my charge, rather than focusing on the overwhelming fear. 

People told me she was in a better place.... People told me she was no longer hurting….. But those comments didn’t help me to heal.

With a purse full of pills, she had planned to take her life, but she decided to stop at the first church along her way because she had heard it was a sin to take her life. So, just in case, she decided to give God a chance and to prove if He was real, cared and loved her by stopping her.

Perhaps today you feel like a shadow; unseen, unnoticed and undervalued.

Can we really be fully open, honest and transparent with Him?  Is there a limit on how much I can say or the way I need to frame my ugly, heartfelt thoughts and emotions without Him being mad at me?

Several decades later, I still remember it like it was yesterday.... In young, naive enthusiasm I never stopped to consider what the consequences might be if I just ran and jumped into the pool.