Jesus asked the Twelve, “Do you also want to leave?” Simon Peter answered “Master [Jesus], to whom shall we go? You have the words of eternal life.”
“Notes of hope”
“She stood on the bridge ready to step off into oblivion. The post-traumatic stress disorder she suffered had made her life — at 18 — unbearable. She had had enough. But what she recalls most vividly are the words of two strangers who stopped her from taking her life. “You are worth so much more than this.”
That made her stop and back away from the edge of the bridge — and go home.
“Those words changed my life,” she realized, and later thought, “If those words could help me, who else could they help?”
So, the next day, she wrote those words down on several pieces of paper and returned to the bridge — the site of many suicides — and stuck the notes all over the bridge. It’s been three and a half years since Paige Hunter, now 21, stood on Wearmouth Bridge near her home in Sunderland, England. Since that cold January night, Paige has spent countless hours crafting handwritten notes on colorful paper, which she laminates and ties to the bridge with string. Don’t give up. Not now, not tomorrow, not ever. Even though things are difficult, your life matters.” [Connections August 2021]
N.C. State basketball coach Jimmy Valvano gave an inspiring speech, at the 1993 ESPY Awards, as he battled cancer, the most important part of his message was “Don’t give up, don’t ever give up.”
In our nation and in our world [today] many times we want to give up, forgetting that “you are worth more ….” Forgetting “Don’t ever give up ….” Jesus walks with us, but we must allow Him into our heart as well as our walk and TRUST Him.
St. Joseph, pray for us.
St. Andre Bessette, intercede for us.
St. Francis de Sales, pray for us.
“Tune my spirit to the music of heaven.” [St. Brendan the Navigator]
May God Be Praised your day be Blessed.
Beautiful ❤️
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