“The end,” the story says. To successfully conclude the plot of a story, you must wrap up the loose ends. At the end of a person’s life, there is a service to conclude their time on earth. When you get sick, one of the first questions you ask the doctor is “when will I will be better?” After a tragedy occurs, there is a point in which restitution is expected, a point at which an "end" is reached: the check arrives, the new house is moved into, the perpetrator goes to jail. This looking Continue Reading
Hopelessness & the Increasing Suicide Rate {The Atlanta Journal Constitution}
In his book “When God Was Taken Captive,” Willard Aldrich quotes a story by James DeLoach, senior pastor of the Second Baptist Church of Houston, about a painting he came across many years ago. The picture depicted an old, burned-out mountain shack. After the fire, the family’s sole possession was destroyed, and the picture shows that only the chimney remained standing. In front of the devastated home stood an old man, dressed in his underclothes, with a small boy by his side. It was evident Continue Reading
