Did Ya Hear?

 This week was a perfect example of what Ministry Lifestyle looks like to many.  An old friend from many years ago buried their daughter this past weekend.  She was a beautiful young woman whose talent in art and poetry was exceptional.  She was 26-years old.  What is truly beautiful is that she was a SIDS  (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) baby.  For most babies, it is a death sentence, but she grew and prospered no matter what the odds.  To most of us she was a bouquet of colors ever changing as she grew and developed. 

Her beginning was one where her birth mother wanted to have an abortion, delivered the baby and abandoned her at the hospital.  This child lived at the hospital for five-months, finally leaving the nursery and sitting in her infant seat at the nurses station.  One day a woman came to visit someone else and saw this child, and as most of us do, stopped to play with the baby.  She heard the story of this particular child and why she was so old still in the nursery ward.  She and her husband prayed about the situation and believed that God wanted them to adopt her, which they did.

This woman of God had many obstacles to overcome in her short life, and lived in daily chronic pain.  For anyone with a chronic pain you know what I'm talking about.  What makes this story so very tragic is that she not only died, she committed suicide, not able to stand the pain of life any longer.  A few days before, her dad was saying how much pain he was in and that the doctors couldn't do anything.  Her remark, "I live like that every day."

Below is a video that many have seen, but I post it because it is so important that we don't take for granted the silent cries for help from young people, but also from anyone.  But my friends, we are losing youth at a fast rate, some of which can be avoided.  Ministry is a Lifestyle--sometimes it is a listening ear ....