The last week has been a challenge for me. It's amazing how life doesn't change around you but the peace you maintain is the complete opposite of what you are use to.

I have had several ups and downs that could have easily distracted me from the Word of God and yet I am standing under his blanket still. God is good!

You must know these are normalcies I face on a daily basis however recognizing the attack of the enemy is imperative when adversity strikes.

I was approached by two people this last week who are both facing severe depression. They are both very close to my heart and both spoke very clearly of there views in regard to life and clear on there views of wanting to leave this life. I could feel my heart break as I listened to both of them speak. Depression is an intense emotion fueled by anger, fear, resentment, pride, hopelessness and loss.

In February of last year I lost a very close friend of mine to suicide. He had a wife and a young daughter who in fact found his lifeless body and have had to deal with this memory embedded in there mind for the last year. At his funeral these 2 people in which I speak had a clearer picture of the after math that suicide leaves when this decision is made. However the more Satan attacks your mind the more what you once saw doesn't really take heed.

I have been approached with this before by the same two people and both times I reacted in a way that almost cost me my sanity. I immediately ran to there aid and attempted to save them. I took there pain personally and desperately felt that if they passed somehow it would be my fault if I simply chose to stand still.

This time my reaction was different. I began to pray-I asked God to cover them and pleaded the blood over there homes, there family's and there lives. I begged God for peace and asked him to help me prepare for what was coming next.
I spoke in great detail to both of them and attempted to reach them on a different level.

I was asked a question that made everything make perfect sense to me and the question was "so that's all I can do is pray and hold on?" How amazing is it to trust in God on any given day but when adversity strikes we doubt his capabilities. We tell ourselves that there must be something we can do when what is best is to let go and allow God the opportunity to move in there life. We are not letting go because we don't care or love these people we are giving them over to the only person able in every angle to save them.

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