To Write Love on Her Arms

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Registered: 02-02-2010
To Write Love on Her Arms
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Thu, 04-15-2010 - 6:32pm

I can't believe I am just discovering this website... a friend sent it to me today on Facebook. It's an amazing concept, with an amazing vision... and even though, technically, it's aimed to help those with depression or those struggling with drug addiction, I think its vision is very applicable to us.

The vision is that we actually believe these things…

You were created to love and be loved. You were meant to live life in relationship with other people, to know and be known. You need to know that your story is important and that you're part of a bigger story. You need to know that your life matters.

We live in a difficult world, a broken world. My friend Byron is very smart - he says that life is hard for most people most of the time. We believe that everyone can relate to pain, that all of us live with questions, and all of us get stuck in moments. <>

We all wake to the human condition. We wake to mystery and beauty but also to tragedy and loss. Millions of people live with problems of pain. Millions of homes are filled with questions – moments and seasons and cycles that come as thieves and aim to stay. We know that pain is very real. <>

<> We're seeing it happen. We're seeing lives change as people get the help they need. People sitting across from a counselor for the first time. People stepping into treatment. In desperate moments, people calling a suicide hotline. <> <>

<> AMEN TO EAS!!

The vision is that community and hope and help would replace secrets and silence.

The vision is people putting down guns and blades and bottles.

The vision is that we can reduce the suicide rate in America and around the world.

The vision is that we would learn what it means to love our friends, and that we would love ourselves enough to get the help we need.

The vision is better endings. <> The vision is graduation, a Super Bowl, a wedding, a child, a sunrise. The vision is people becoming incredible parents, people breaking cycles, making change.

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The vision is the possibility that we're more loved than we'll ever know.

The vision is hope, and hope is real.

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To all my EAS sisters, there is hope. And this is definitely not the end of our stories.

Hugs,

Jane
NC/LC since January 28, 2010
http://secretlifeofjane.wordpress.com/
Jane
NC/LC since January 28, 2010
http://secretlifeofjane.wordpress.com/
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Registered: 10-25-2009
Thu, 04-15-2010 - 6:44pm
God, Jane, that was incredible.