Post-traumatic living after suicide

A pastor shares her story of the grief and trauma she continues to experience two years after the death of her brother to suicide.

Love becomes your story

By Minna Bothwell

“Now before the festival of the Passover, Jesus knew that his hour had come to depart from this world and go to the Father. Having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them to the end.” John 13:1 NRSVUE
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