Suicide and the Christian

What about suicide when I am a Christian?

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Watch this video by Author and Pastor, Redeemer Fellowship, Joe Thorn...

Joe Thorn on Suicide and the Christian Crosswalk

Stay blessed

Paddick Van Zyl

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The Passage of Grief

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"Grief never ends...but it changes. It's a passage, not a place to stay. Grief is not a sign of weakness, nor a lack of faith... It is the price of love."
Unknown Author

There are so many golden nuggets to be gleaned from this one quote.

• Grief is something we will all have to face at one time or another in our lives
• Grief is pretty much an ongoing 'emotional' aspect
• It changes us
• Most important - grief should never be a dwelling place, a place in life where we get stuck and where we end up moving in. It is a journey designed to change and empower but also teach us
• Grief should never be viewed as a weakness, frailty or disability
• Grief strengthens our faith in that we can be assured of our loved one being much better off if they had faith to believe God's Word for salvation
• Grief gives us a future hope of heaven

When God designed us, He also designed grief as part of the process we would go through to heal. Always remember - everyone grieves and mourns in their own unique way and there are no prescribed processes or ways of grieving.

Stay blessed.

Pr Paddick Van Zyl

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The Irish Blessing

Some beautiful and meaningful Irish blessings;

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“May your blessings outnumber The shamrocks that grow. And may trouble avoid you Wherever you go. Irish blessing”
― Stephen Revell, Picture Perfect

 “May you always have a friend that is worth that name. Irish blessing”
― Faith Lyon, Alice

 “May those that love us, love us. And those that don’t love us, May God turn their hearts. And if he doesn’t turn their hearts, May he turn their ankles, So we’ll know them by their limping.”
― Jean Legrand, IRISH BLESSINGS - Over 100 Irish Blessings in 8 Categories   

To Judge or Not To Judge

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“We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.”
― Tami Hoag, Dark Horse   

 Why is it that we as human beings simply enjoy passing judgment, being mean to our fellow earth inhabitants? Do we really make ourselves feel better by judging another instead of looking to ourselves?

To assume something without the facts is to err, to be a fool for only a fool will make conclusions based on myth and hearsay.

Rather be slow in speech and judgment...

Stay blessed

Paddick Van Zyl

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The Cost

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“The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run.”
― Henry David Thoreau, Walden   

The Choice

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“Sometimes you make choices in life and sometimes choices make you.”
― Gayle Forman, If I Stay

How Much love?

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“I am not sure exactly what heaven will be like, but I know that when we die and it comes time for God to judge us, he will not ask, 'How many good things have you done in your life?' rather he will ask, 'How much love did you put into what you did?”
― Mother Teresa