Originally Posted by
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I can empathize with them, offer support and recognize the tremendous growth that they have had but I don't really relate.
I heard a share from a guy who was hanging by the neck in a self constructed noose from the rafters in his garage when his neighbor, a nurse and paramedic, cut him down. He was at the jumping off place, and, well... he jumped. He's in my home group and I've seen him get his life, family, job... back.
I was never at the jumping off place, but there is something in his share, his story, that I can hear,
and relate to. There but for the grace of God... that rings true. He travelled farther down the road than I, and had farther back to come, but his experience helps me, because I know, in the fibers of my soul, that I was on that same road, and we are now on a different one, but it is the same... recovered in the sunlight of the spirit.
Your post, in my opinion, is not at all divisive. It seems to me that you are searching ....
Mark