Come and git it! Send me your address and I'll send you a couple of Shop&Share slips so you too can be part of the fundraising action! Take the slip to checkout on Monday, May 18 or Tuesday, May 19 OR Wednesday, May 20 (or ALL those days!) and you will contribute to the grand total. 5% of that total will be donated to Team Resounding Grace for the Overnight Walk!
I still need more donations. We're down to about 5 weeks away and if I don't raise another $650, my teammate will be walking alone.
The Out of the Darkness event is symbolic of moments when we feel we are walking alone in the darkness with no hope in sight. If you've always had hope, you're fortunate. Some people can seem to see hope and we want to walk into that sunrise to show them there's always hope and that thousands care & will walk for them...millions overall will be with them in spirit all over this country and potentially the world.
I know that I can make my goal of $1,000. I just need your help. Please consider a one-time contribution to show your support for those who feel they have none.
Thank you.
Showing posts with label depression. Show all posts
Showing posts with label depression. Show all posts
Monday, May 11, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
The Overnight Walk 2009
I will be walking this June for a cause that has no familiar ties to my life. I didn't lose a relative or a friend to this maladity. I simply heard about someone from someone else that came close to the edge. My walk is for suicide prevention.
It's been a long journey so far. Some sympathize with the cause and contribute. Others seem to sympathize but either they do not believe this is something preventable, feel it's something that the person "chose", or they are all "given out"; too many groups needing help, too little money to give TO help.
My goal with a blog is two-fold...to raise awareness and hopefully raise funds. The Overnight Walk by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention requires a minimum of $1,000 to walk in their event. For a split second, in the beginning, this seemed like too much for me to raise. But then God took over. I'm at about 32% of my goal at this time.
Team Resounding Grace, which includes myself and my friend Shannan, is driven to bring to light this shrouded condition of depression and the act of suicide. It affects anyone and everyone somehow. Postpartum moms, doctors, the elderly (for whom I wrote "The Senior"), college-age students, high schoolers, fathers, mothers, the unemployed. If there is something that made your world seemingly fall apart, you may have been on the edge too.
The AFSP raises funds to use in researching the cause of depression. Every 16 minutes, someone falls vicitim to suicide. I'm not waiting until someone close to me gets there...I'm taking a stand now for them and others who suffer in silence in their situations or who suffer from the loss of someone dear to them.
I hope you will join us.
www.theovernight.org/team/resoundinggrace
Walker: Annette Hernandez
It's been a long journey so far. Some sympathize with the cause and contribute. Others seem to sympathize but either they do not believe this is something preventable, feel it's something that the person "chose", or they are all "given out"; too many groups needing help, too little money to give TO help.
My goal with a blog is two-fold...to raise awareness and hopefully raise funds. The Overnight Walk by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention requires a minimum of $1,000 to walk in their event. For a split second, in the beginning, this seemed like too much for me to raise. But then God took over. I'm at about 32% of my goal at this time.
Team Resounding Grace, which includes myself and my friend Shannan, is driven to bring to light this shrouded condition of depression and the act of suicide. It affects anyone and everyone somehow. Postpartum moms, doctors, the elderly (for whom I wrote "The Senior"), college-age students, high schoolers, fathers, mothers, the unemployed. If there is something that made your world seemingly fall apart, you may have been on the edge too.
The AFSP raises funds to use in researching the cause of depression. Every 16 minutes, someone falls vicitim to suicide. I'm not waiting until someone close to me gets there...I'm taking a stand now for them and others who suffer in silence in their situations or who suffer from the loss of someone dear to them.
I hope you will join us.
www.theovernight.org/team/resoundinggrace
Walker: Annette Hernandez
The Senior
I once gave it all up for a life...not my own.
A willing sacrifice like that of Christ...destined for a different kind of pain.
Short bursts of praise came when the occasion CALLED for it.
Love that seemingly overflowed.
Then your life began to HAPPENING... I began fading into the past.
A sense of abandonment became my houseguest.
I'm in the way...I'm a burden.
My time has past, my work is done.
You will cry out but my departure is for the best.
Christ will be there to catch me and I will MATTER again.
A willing sacrifice like that of Christ...destined for a different kind of pain.
Short bursts of praise came when the occasion CALLED for it.
Love that seemingly overflowed.
Then your life began to HAPPENING... I began fading into the past.
A sense of abandonment became my houseguest.
I'm in the way...I'm a burden.
My time has past, my work is done.
You will cry out but my departure is for the best.
Christ will be there to catch me and I will MATTER again.
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