Depression, Addiction and Suicide, used to be words
that
everyone shied away from.
The words conjured up
images of a “Crazy Person!”
But modern science and medicine, have proven it
isn’t so!
Don’t be Complacent! These are real
illnesses, diseases that kill…
no matter by whose hand.
What you must do is acknowledge that you
or someone you love
has a disease… no different
than heart disease or diabetes or cancer…this is a
real killer,
but it doesn’t have to be!
Make a life changing decision
You just may save a life!
With
Love and Thanksgiving, Marjorie Struck
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March 2020
A New Message From Author
Marjorie Struck
This
year, due to health
issues, I was in need of moving into a nursing facility.
But, unforeseen to me, living in
Emerson Nursing Home turned out to be G ds plan for my life.
One day
the hospice chaplain visited me and we discussed many
things. We
found that we both were members of the same Lutheran church;
the Missouri Synod, even though at different times.
I
began to explain about the tragedy of my father’s suicide by
hanging and the refusal by the church for his burial in the
church sanctuary.
Over the years my family has had to bear the
grief and the shame of this church decision and I felt
determined to understand why. But my efforts to resolve that
injustice still remained.
On February 20, 2020
the
chaplain promised to look into the matter and seek out the
truth.
Finally, he sent a letter to me with information that
stunned me.
The letter stated that since
1532 the Lutheran doctrine was that each pastor and
individual congregation must decide the question of suicide
burial for themselves (today this is posted on their synod
website).
I finally had to face the truth and conclude that
our own Plainview Minnesota congregation and pastor made it
their decision to condemn my father’s soul to hell! And to
condemn our family as outcasts, forever!
Thankfully today, the Plainview Minnesota church,
no longer follows that practice.
As I sit writing this
message, I realize that this is as far as I can go and with
G d’s help, I am now finally ready to let this go.
I have made peace and found
forgiveness with the truth and finally gotten closure.
I know G d
works in amazing ways!
My life has been a long
journey; from the experiences of 10+ suicides in my family
and now coming to this age which led me to being able to
write it all down in my book, “TELL OTHERS,” to leave this
important information.
