[Republican Wildcat]

The point I was trying to make (perhaps I shouldn't have been sarcastic--I apologize), was that we are to come into life and leave life on God's terms, not our own.

It unfortunately seems that most people who commit suicide loved something else more than they loved God--and that is a mistake. As much as she loved her husband, she should have loved God more, and that way she would never have completely lost hope--even though it would still be devistating.

[sinkspur]

It unfortunately seems that most people who commit suicide loved something else more than they loved God--and that is a mistake. As much as she loved her husband, she should have loved God more, and that way she would never have completely lost hope--even though it would still be devistating.

It is almost impossible to find solace in God when your world has, for all intents and purposes, ended, as it did with Linda Bowles.

True, she was too bound up emotionally with her husband, and neither she nor he could see that, apparently.

My thinking is that she had very little love for herself apart from her husband. A healthy love of self is necessary to withstand the vicissitudes of this world, and it's what gives people strength when they lose the love of their life.

One cannot realize the true love of God if one has no sense of self-worth.

This magnificent woman, Linda Bowles, had to have someone to lean on because she couldn't stand upright on her own.

Love of self comes, IMO, from the profound sense of how much God loves us, individually. Linda never knew that.