Life after Suicide Neither of my high school friends let me in on their secret: they planned to commit suicide. They succeeded. Not at the same time. And by then we were miles and years apart. But it still shook me to the core when I heard the news. “Death by suicide.” My friends, they …
I stood before the computer tech with my laptop in both hands, as if I were offering my firstborn into her care. “Dr. David, have you backed up your documents?” she asked. I shamefully lowered my head, guilty again. “No,” I answered. I could hear the words of my son, Dave, echoing in the background …
Stuck in an Elevator I never dreamed I would be stuck on an elevator, but there I was, sitting on the floor, my only companion the darkness surrounding me. Just a few minutes before the nurses helping my wife in post-op had sent me to get my car and park it at the back entrance …
Life matters. I chose “Life Matters” for the name of my blog because life matters. It really does. I will write about a lot of things that happen to us in this life we live. And beneath it all I will remember that our Lord cares about our life and what happens to us. In …
My wife wouldn’t smile Valentine’s Day. It wasn’t that she didn’t want to smile. She had a surgical procedure to remove a basil cell skin cancer just above her upper lip. The procedure was outpatient, not lengthy, and considered low in risk. The first stage was the removal of the cancer itself by physician number …