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National Suicide Prevention Week (NSPW) is an annual week-long campaign in the United States (and the internet!) to inform and engage health professionals and the general public about suicide prevention and warning signs of suicide
Warning signs may include:
Loss of interest in previously pleasurable activities
Giving away prized possessions
Problem behaviour and substance misuse
Apathy in dress and appearance, or a sudden change in weight
Sudden and striking personality changes
Withdrawal from friends and social activities
Increased ‘accident proneness’ and self-harming behaviours
Please, if you a feeling suicidal call one of these numbers:
Whenever I try to pray
I find myself
(or at least, I fail to lose myself)
distracted
(in record time)
by
10,000 things
By failures and grudges
and time tables and pay scales
by the good and the bad and –
well, mainly, by the ugliness that simmers behind my smiles.
And if, by chance or by grace,
I catch myself
as I churn through the sludge of old, tired thoughts
And if, by chance or by grace,
I don’t turn the catching into more sludge
fodder for the curving in
then –
sometimes –
some precious times –
I can have a quiet, inward chuckle at myself.
And if, by chance or by grace,
I do
Then the churn quiets down enough
that I can hear –
just barely
out of the corner of my soul’s eye
God chuckling softly with me.
You see,
prayer is a serious thing.
But God knows
not to take it too seriously.
“Whenever I Pray” by my dear friend, David Finnegan-Hosey (via ohheykathleenkay)
