Today I was going to write about the upcoming finals tomorrow morning or something about the gators going to the bcs but all that isn't important when it comes down to life itself. There are some things that are more important like friendships and love and family. I am so blessed to have the life that I have. For some reason God placed me in the family, state, school, lives, and friendships that He did when He could have placed me anywhere else and I know that a constant state of awe and gratitude should be maintained for our God but sometimes things that mean nothing like sports, or school, or weekends get our main focus. We need to always have in the back--in the front of our minds everything that he has done for us. Like I said, each one of us was placed in a particular situation, be it good or not, but God put us there in His infinite wisdom, for His cause.
I talk about this tonight because when I got home from studying tonight, my mom(who had been in the Keys with her sister for the past few days) told me that my Uncle Joe(my aunts ex-husband) had killed himself on Saturday. I hadn't seen him for a few years but he's still family. I just wonder what could drive someone past the point of hope, into such despair and desperation and distress that this would seem the only way out. I don't know if he was a believer or not, hope he was. It makes me wonder, how many christians did he encounter that could have made a positive impact on his life, and in the end save it? I'm sure there are thousands of cases like this everyday. This should be a call to all believers that whenever we sense that someone is hurting, whether we know them or not or whether we feel comfortable or not, we are called to strive to live a life like Jesus did and Jesus would never let someone who is hurting walk by. Just remember that as you go about your day, who could be the Joe that you encounter that you can save?
Please pray for my Aunt and cousins and his whole family. Tough times.
