OT/MISC Pastor waits until very end of sermon to casually reveal his wife committed suicide the night before

[jward]

This saddens me even more
But I don’t have the cold anger of before
Yes she may have pulled the trigger
But he provoked the situation

It hurt my heart to post that 911 call and proof it was a suicide, in part due to knowing how much it would hurt you

But I still cried like a baby
Mayhaps the immediate family can get some sense of closure
I don’t know

My experience has been most clients want and need the truth, above all else, and it is the not knowing for certain that hurts the most- so I do have hope that this will be some small measure of comfort. I also hope there is some peace brought to them knowing that she's finally in the arms of the one who heals all hurts and hearts, and that this could have been even more devastating, had she chosen to take her babies with her.
Cold scant comfort, but in these times that wound us most deeply it is important to stretch and find something.

I wish you, the community and her deeply grieving family comfort