Yesterday I decided to google the name of some old friends. The internet led me to a website of beautiful art glass that our friends produce. Of course, an email address was available to contact them, too. The response to my email was almost immediate and contained the news that their beautiful daughter took her own life about 2 years ago. I was devastated and still find it so hard to believe. I can’t begin to know the pain our friends are going through and will always have haunting them. Suicide is the permanent answer to a temporary problem…why didn’t Nia know this? The utter hopelessness that Nia must have felt to even think of doing this deed, has now become utter sadness at the loss of their beautiful daughter and all the potential for her life that her parents are now going through. I grieve because I knew Nia, and now will never be able to see mature into a strong woman like her mother. I grieve because I have two beautiful daughters and I can’t begin to imagine my world without them in it.
Thank you God for all the ways Nia touched our lives, never let us forget her. Thank you, God, for all the gifts, talents and blessings that you have given each of us…help us to use them to our highest potential, which in the end will glorify you.
Humbly
Missy
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