Good morning…
After “pushing send” on yesterday’s raw, real post, Heavy And Hollow, I thought, “I kinda feel like Jerry Maguire.”
Remember him? After his own life-altering epiphany in the 1996 romantic comedy/sports film, Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) “pushes send” on a personalized mission statement about perceived dishonesty in the sports management business and his desire to work with fewer clients to produce better quality. After emailing his passion-filled, raw-real words to everyone in the office, he is mockingly applauded before being swiftly fired.
As an online community, we have been taking a bird’s eye view over the landscape of depression and suicide, trying to make peace with the painful mystery. In yesterday’s post I landed us near the prints my bare feet had left when I trudged up my own lonesome valley in my early forties. Suddenly my head was filled with the dread of “senders remorse.” How would my honesty be received? Would people think less of me because I exposed deep pain? Would some mockingly applaud before swiftly unsubscribing?
This morning, God wakes me up to a favorite quote by Terri St. Cloud. “She could never go back and make some of the details pretty. All she could do was move forward and make the whole beautiful.” Those of us who survive our own personalized version of the valley are coaxed forward with God to make the whole beautiful.
Even though I walk through the [sunless] valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod [to protect] and Your staff [to guide], they comfort and console me (Psalm 23:4, AMP).
…Sue…
