Suicide - Guest Blog - Dan Williams

This is from a good friend of mine, Dan Williams, Dan and I met through the Arkansas Assemblies of God Men's Ministries and instantly hit it off due to our backgrounds in church media and ministry in general. Dan is a great guy, super talented, and offers some really excellent insight into our daily lives. 

Read the words below and apply them to your life like someone else's life depends on it, because it just might...

Suicide: So tonight I rolled through the ridiculously slow McDonald's drive-through and ordered a meal. When I say slow I don't mean that they were taking their time; I mean that I was pretty much the only customer at that time. Anyways, I've visited with the cashier at the first window for a few minutes about what he likes most and what he dislikes most about working for McDonald's.

He said that he enjoys serving people. That it may not be some job that required a fancy degree, but he gets to help people enjoy one of the most pleasurable things in life; which is eating a meal with your friends and family.

He said that the hardest part of the job is not the busy hours, nor the pressure inside the room with coworkers and bosses; but it's actually the customers.

Not the ones that are unhappy with their meal, or the ones that had a bad McDonald's experience; but the ones that are just simply hateful to you when nothing is wrong.

He gave me one example where a mother came through the drive-through and was screaming at her kid and then used him and his job as an example of where they are going to end up in life if they make poor decisions and don't get their life together by making good grades in school and such.
And he said comments like that are painful coming from people he doesn't even know...because he's not working at McDonald's because he made poor decisions or bad grades. He's working at McDonald's because it takes three lower-paying jobs to support his family because of unfortunate events in his original career path.

Tomorrow, we should evaluate the words we say to people before we say them. Because you don't know them and what their going through.

This past weekend, a guy that I went to school with committed suicide for reasons I don't know. It was unexpected. It was obviously a permanent solution to a temporary problem that I feel he could have overcome had someone, somewhere said or done things differently. Perhaps from a stranger.
The words you speak to someone could only contribute to another person taking their own life... And you may not even realize it.

The words you say to someone could also save them.
Think about it.
-Dan.

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