Blogging from a hospital room

Im currently sitting in a single room with a suicide precaution patient. For all you acronym fans...that's an ASP. Or active suicide precaution. I think the word suicide itself holds a lot of different meanings for everyone. I'd say some patents are legit aNd really hurting for help and or feel like they are really at the end of their rope. And other times (most times) I think they are just looking for attention. And let's be honest...suicidal or not, us humans are sometimes STARVED for attention. Others seek ways that will put them in a hospital bed with me as their sitter and others who don't seek the suicidal route will do one of two things;let their appetite for attention starve or seek it out some other way. Like tweeting how awful their life is. Facebooking how terribly unfair life is for them. Life is unfair for everyone at certain times in life. The death of a loved one. A tree falling on a car. A deer running into the side of your car door. A fake winning lottery ticket. A brand new hockey stick breaking on a clear shot to an empty net. Life is unfair.
This week alone I've sat with 3 suicide precautions. That's all I've sat with this week. And granted I have absolutley no clue what their individual lives have handed then thus far, but i always walk away thinking the same thing no matter the case; "What in life is so terrible to cause them to feel that taking their own life is he only way to resolve it?" she. You stop and think about it,a successful suicide doesn't just take the life of the one committing the act...but those that knew and loved the one that is now gone. I don't get it. And I never will. All I get is the look on the faces if the family members thT sit with their loved one as they go through the necessary actions to get back to good health...and then chances are I will see them again in my lifetime in a hospital room.

Challenges in life were not designed to trip us up and cause us to fall so hard that we never see the opportunity to get back up. Challenges are here for us to learn from them. So that we know what to do the next time around. So we can be stronger in other areas of life. So that we may be a testimony of hope to the ones that have been blinded to hope. So that we can truly see the value of the gift of life. Life that has been freely given to us but not paid for with money. But with the precious life of the sinless Savior.