Today we talked about despair…and how much despair hangs over this city. It covers it like a blanket. It clings to it like a wet blanket. Most people have no hope. They feel like there is nothing to live for. And we’ve realized how easy it has become for us to fall into that same slump… It’s like a cloud is over us, raining on us and bringing the dreariness on us.

In our newspaper, everyday, there are 2-3 suicides. That’s crazy. We read in the newspaper once that in three weeks, there were over 21 suicides… and more than 2/3 of those suicides were for unknown reasons. One day, your loved one is with you and the next, he or she is gone…no warning, nothing…just gone.

People commit suicide here over school grades, arranged marriages, lost love, money problems, loneliness, or anything else. Because there is no hope. When someone makes a comment like, “I don’t want to live anymore,” or “maybe I’ll just kill myself,” you have to take them seriously.

So how do we keep ourselves out from under this cloud? By remembering who we are and WHOSE we are.