Hope

Brenda and I went shopping today, and on the way home she told me it was her birthday! So later we went out to eat with Arthur and Anna. But all I can think of about that time now is the news that Arthur told us. Just two days ago one of his students here at No. 2 ended his own life by jumping from his apartment on the 7th floor. My heart breaks for these students. They are under so much academic pressure to say the least. He couldn't have been more than 13 years old. I wasn't exaggerating when I was telling you about my weeping "bird" (Amy) the other day. How horrible must it be at that young of an age to think life is hopeless? Another sad thing is that this boys tragic death will hardly make a ripple in this country, this city, not even this school. It's so messed up how little they value human life here. It saddens me. And sickens me. And fills my heart with such compassion for these young impressionable souls. I don't know what I can do, but I know at the very least I can love on Amy. Pray for her... for all of them. And for me, that the Lord will use me somehow to give them hope beyond their entrance exams and text books and truth that surpasses these every day tragedies. They have such happy faces and content appearances. But inside they are "starving" and "lonely" and "hopeless" like Amy said. Praise the Lord for he satisfies hunger, is a friend to the lonely, and he IS Hope. And he loves them so so so soooooooooooo much. And what a love he's given me for them as well. Praise his name.
Isaiah 61:1-3
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