A few years back Kate Spade committed suicide. A few months ago, I heard about Miss USA 2019, Cheslie Kryst, committing suicide. When we look at these women they seem like they had it all together, right? They were successful. They were beautiful. They were “happy” it seemed. They “had it all.”
Recently, I was at a bible study that I am leading for 11th and 12th graders and their friend tried to overdose. It has been 10 years since I graduated high school and the amount of people that have taken their lives since then is very heartbreaking.
It breaks my heart so much hearing about any suicide. My heart hurts thinking about the pain someone must have been experiencing at that moment and season of their life.
I have personally dealt with depression. I went through a very hard season of just living in constant darkness around me. The feeling of tight pressure in my heart. This feeling of constant ache haunted me. I genuinely do not know what I would have done in that season without my faith in Jesus Christ. Without my faith in knowing God works it ALL for good of those who love Him and are called according to their purpose, I would have been in that dark hole and I don’t know if I ever would have come out.
Something I realized is no matter what, everyone, and I mean everyone is struggling with something. Behind closed doors all of our hearts are breaking someway and somehow.
I cant imagine the pain, the struggle and the feeling of being so lost that would push someone to take away their own life but what I want to make sure of is this, you know you’re not alone. It is okay to not be okay. It is okay to have problems because who the heck in this world doesn’t?
Everyone is struggling with something.
I want you to know, you’re loved. You’re not just loved by me, but by Jesus. He loves you so much He died for you.
And as my girl, Jordan Dooley would say, “Your brokenness is welcome here.” Because it is. We are all a little broken, someway, and some how. But, what I have 100 percent belief and faith in is Jesus is the only true way to happiness in this fallen world. He is the only way to fill that void in your heart.
No amount of money can bring you happiness.
No amount of fame can bring you happiness.
No amount of success can bring you happiness.
No amount of beauty can bring you happiness.
No amount of anyTHING can bring you happiness.
No human being can bring you happiness.
Maybe these things will bring you happiness for a short amount of time, yes. But what I am talking about is not just temporary happiness, but something lifelong. Something everlasting. Something eternal, not just transient. Something that does satisfy. Something that does fulfill and that’s Jesus.
Jesus can bring that contentment you’re longing for.
Jesus can bring joy to your life you never thought was possible.
Jesus can bring you peace you’re so desperately needing.
Jesus can bring you purpose.
Jesus can bring you life.
Jesus died on a cross 2,000 years ago for you and I to find life in Him and to LIVE and LIVE ABUNDANTLY.
So let’s love one another just as Christ has loved us.
John 13:34
“A new commandment I give to you, that you love one another: just as I have loved you, you also are to love one another.”
Let’s not just love the good, let’s love the real, and the raw.
Let’s be gracefully broken together.
Galatians 5:14 “For the whole law is fulfilled in one word: “You shall love your neighbor as yourself.”
I want everyone to know I am here for you. You’re not alone. In Galatians it tells us to bear each others burdens together and I want to do that with you.
Galatians 6:2 “Bear each others burdens, and so fulfill the law of christ.”
I am praying you soften your heart to Jesus, if you haven’t already. I promise you will find joy, purpose, life and freedom.
2 Corinthians 3:17 “Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the spirit of the Lord is there is freedom.”
Another post coming soon on the power of our stories/testimonies and the power in sharing them with each other 🙂