to write love on her arms

merry christmas everybody!!
the parents are sleeping and its only quarter to 4pm - in keeping with the tradition they set themselves last year without knowing it!!

seeing as ill likely forget, i must remember, when i put some money into the account that lets me buy these kind of things, to get this.


















'To write love on her arms' is something that ive heard about for a while and i think its a great idea. ive often thought that if there was any way to help people with depression and suicidal tendencies, then i'd like to be able to do it. Theres a guy i live with who is working with the samaritans who has just trained to be able to do that. in all likelihoods, i probably couldn't, because i'd put my foot in it and make things worse for those people (a la the picture)...

saying that, i count myself lucky - when i was a teen i did have low seasons where, had there been no intervention from God, i would have stayed in a bad place with no peace for the rest of my life. unfortunately, 'getting God' isn't a tangible enough voice for those who just dont want to hear God, yet are in these problems - but if we can show all that he stands for and see the results of that (like the aim of TWLOHA), then thats a way of helping people towards something that stands for peace, whether theyd want to admit the source of it or not. at the time id only admit it because God was the only thing that got me out of a depressed apathetic unemployed state - and nothing else but him worked! But more and more you come to appreciate that he is a rescuer, and more than that, you can respect him, and find him to be like a father, knowing that with him you are given a new status and a new identity. not worthless, but in Christ.

Funny though, that wasnt the first thing I thought I was going to write down! Thought I'd mention how this t-shirt's line is a lyric from the song "everything starts where it ends" by a band called lovedrug (sadly theyre unspotifyable!!) - I didnt realise theyd done this t-shirt, and I bloooooooooomin love this band. But the blog went on a rather jesusy twang instead, ahhhh well - its Christmas after all :)


Happy birthday j!