suicide awareness.

Today was suicide awareness/prevention day.  Over 34, 000 people commit suicide  a year.  Approximately every fifteen minutes someone dies from suicide. Nearly 1,000,000 attempt suicide every year. Suicide is the sixth leading cause of death for ages five to fourteen. It's also the third leading cause of death for ages fifteen to twenty-four. It can be prevented though. A lot of times people are hurt. They are crying out for help but don't know how else to get it! Some people just don't feel loved. They should NEVER feel like that. You are always loved, it doesn't matter if it you're loved by your peers or anyone else. All that matters is that God loves you and so does his son. His son died for YOU. That's how much he loves you. So if you are ever feeling like maybe you're not good enough or no one loves you remember Jesus died for you so that your sins could be forgiven and you could live with him eternally in a place called heaven. You are ALWAYS loved. Also the first thing you think of when you hear of teen suicide, you think of bullying.  If you go look it up on the Internet there are TONS of stories of teens who commit suicide every year because they were BULLIED. God says to LOVE EACH OTHER AS HE LOVES YOU. Not to judge others but to see them like he does, as a beautiful and wonderful child of God. Differences are differences that is how God made them , and God makes NO mistakes. So why do we still persecute them? Every person is a child of God. So as you go on through the rest of not just your school years but through the rest of your life remember that God sees EVERYONE as beautiful and wonderful human beings and he loves every single one of them.  Try to see people through God's eyes. Don't judge. If you see someone being bullied or hear someone making fun of someone TAKE A STAND. They may be too afraid to stand up for them self. Maybe they need YOUR help! You never know, you might have just saved their life. WE ARE ALL EQUAL. It's about time we act like it.

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. - Matthew 7:1-5

There is only one lawgiver and judge, he who is able to save and to destroy. But who are you to judge your neighbor? -James 4:12

And as you wish that others would do to you, do so to them. -Luke 6: 31

Everyone who hates his brother is a murderer, and you know that no murderer has eternal life abiding in him. By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers.  -1 John 3:15-16