Thank you for that. Just lost my job today. Honest comments to the boss do not pay off.
Having suicidal thoughts, as usual,for 40 years, but thinking of living out my money left over. 2 and a half years? I have 2 kids, 20 and 22 and a loving wife. Basically disabled, but how do you prove that?
I was always so strong and somewhat smart. I’m not used to this.
Part of me would like to commit suicide (as usual). I was sexually molested by 2 relatives at 7 years of age. I don’t know if this has made a difference. With my kids, we only had a baby sitter just once,by a trusted friend, and they seem to be OK inside.
But I’m not. I don’t want to be the dad that killed himself, yet I feel I’ve been bullied and drained by my numerous bosses for the last year, by anonymous complaints. (easy for them to make up)
I know that life isn’t fair, but it has always been to me until the last few years. Getting older, but have had a mixed life of blessings and curses. Can’t really complain, because some people have not experienced the blessings.
I’m jut in a state of shock, although I could see it coming.(It’s happened to several others before me). Anyways, thanks for listening to my tale of woe.
Wow, praying for a “flipping of the flow” that you can use this job loss for the better!
Think “Flip the Flow”! :-)
I can't say I've ever considered suicide but there have been many times when I have prayed for God to not let me wake up in the morning. I just wanted to go home.
You are not going through this alone. Not only are there others going through similar situations but God, Himself, is going through it with you. He is in you. It's a mystery but it's true.
Holy Spirit, I pray for You to help Concentrate feel Your divine presence within him. Bring people into his life who build him up instead of tearing him down. Those who mistreat him are the ones with a problem. Normal people don't go around trying to destroy their fellow human beings.
Father, bless and protect Concentrate. Let Your face shine upon him and be gracious to him. Lift him up like a loving father lifts his baby high into the air and smiles at him and give him Your peace.
I am praying for you and your family that
you may be filled with the Holy Spirit and that
the demons that torment you will be held at bay
until your vocation to fatherhood echos stronger and
your strength and inspiration returns to invigorate your efforts and
that they may be rewarded with uncountable blessings.
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Oh my goodness. I am so sorry. I share your feelings including frequent wishes to have this life just be over. Nothing but crap most of the time, troubles.... I have to gut it out and remember I will feel better in a day or 2, and I do.
I grew up stuck on a farm with an abusive father, made us kids work on the farm and business , every minute we were not at school, starting at age 10 after we moved there and built everything ( kids building!). He has a horrible volatile temper and we didn’t dare say no or he’d have killed us.
I have no relationship with him. I show up for holidays or stop in to see my mother who is still trapped but insists she is fine ( Stockholm Syndrome). He ruined me and my siblings, stole our childhood. I learned in my 40s that a government official with child protective services had visited the farm when I was a kid. Some kind soul ( a retail customer of ours I assume) had called on our behalf. My crazy father is 85 and still working, thus my 80 year old mother still works. I hate what he did to all of us.
My sister and I suffer from depression and suicidal thoughts. I know the horrible dread of what bad thing is next... my faith in God is all that keeps me from ending it all.
There is a Bible verse my pastor uses a lot.
“Better is the ending of a thing, than the beginning thereof.”
God has a plan for you and me, a good plan.
Let’s Walk Towards The Cross everyday, until God takes us home.
Amen
I will join all the others in special prayer for you.
To be suddenly unemployed is always a great blow to a man, esp. a father, husband, and provider. You are in the first stages of shock and disbelief. It will get better.
Determine to do one thing each day to get back on track. Update your resume, call people in your network,
take a walk, stay healthy, etc.
It is not the end of the world.
“When wealth is lost, nothing is lost.
When health is lost, something is lost.
When character is lost, everything is lost.”
May God help you to build on your good character every day, may the Spirit enlighten you in many ways, may the love of Christ Jesus descend upon you and sustain you during this difficult time.