A memory
Posted April 21st, 2010 at 09:33 AM by hillbillygirl
Just got some news from a friend requesting prayer, her Uncle died this weekend, possibly from suicide. That hasn't been determined for sure yet.
This brought back a memory that I'd shoved to the back of my mind not wanting to think about the tragedy. I'm going to get out of my timeline a bit in sharing this, but I want to get this written down while I'm thinking of it.
My Uncle committed suicide when I was about 9. He'd never known God, and the only "christians" he knew were my parents. A few weeks before he died, he came to their house asking them to tell him about God. He wanted to know how to be saved! But, instead of telling him about Jesus' gift to us on the cross, they simply told him that he had to go to church. He replied that he couldn't go on Sunday nights because the races were on Sundays and he was on the pit crew, he had a commitment to be there throughout the season. The replied that if races were more important to him than church, he couldn't be saved.
He hung himself in my Aunt's garage a week or two later.
This brought back a memory that I'd shoved to the back of my mind not wanting to think about the tragedy. I'm going to get out of my timeline a bit in sharing this, but I want to get this written down while I'm thinking of it.
My Uncle committed suicide when I was about 9. He'd never known God, and the only "christians" he knew were my parents. A few weeks before he died, he came to their house asking them to tell him about God. He wanted to know how to be saved! But, instead of telling him about Jesus' gift to us on the cross, they simply told him that he had to go to church. He replied that he couldn't go on Sunday nights because the races were on Sundays and he was on the pit crew, he had a commitment to be there throughout the season. The replied that if races were more important to him than church, he couldn't be saved.
He hung himself in my Aunt's garage a week or two later.
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Wow, thanks for opening up and sharing that. It is hard to hear these kinds of stories. To think how Jesus would feel that people make a church building more important than Jesus Himself... It's so sad. It brings to mind Matthew 23, where the Pharisees and Scribes are repromanded for driving people further from the Kingdom rather than closer to it.
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Posted April 21st, 2010 at 11:09 AM by jenni
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Yeah, its a hard thing to remember, which is probably why I left it in the unexamined back of my mind for so long. I wonder whether he'd still be alive if someone had simply told him about Jesus and showed him love and grace.
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Posted April 23rd, 2010 at 10:22 AM by hillbillygirl
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