Summer came to an abrupt stop. Not a slow fade into fall, but abrupt. It’s gone. There is that cool, refreshing chill in the air, even when the warm sun is shining on your skin. The nights are cold and the days shorter. The leaves are changing and falling from trees everywhere you look. The pumpkins are overflowing from the patches. Shorts are being replaced with long pants. The last few weeks we have been busy living. Life has been full. We are having so much fun homeschooling. We have been hanging onto what’s left of the nice weather and getting boat rides in with family. We’ve been taking nature walks and embracing football season. We had the opportunity to care for 5 newborn baby bunnies and the unfortunate event of them not making it past a week old. God had other plans for them, and us. We loved, we learnt, we let go. With eyes full of light and hearts full of hope. With a little piece ripped away from us. Not our first experience of loss and it will surly not be our last. These are the ever changing tides of life.
Mental Health. Depression. Anxiety. I know I missed "Mental Health Day", but this is something that needs to be talked about more than just one day in October. This is something that needs awareness and education everyday. More than "40 seconds of action". Come on! I wanted to share this even more when recently I found out a beautiful young girl I know is suicidal. She reached out. She got help and her courage inspires me. What I would do to hold her tight and take her pain away. So let’s talk about it for a second. This has been sitting on my chest and weighing me down for far to long. Something no one likes to talk about. We ALL have mental health. We all have highs and we all have lows, some lower than others. It's something that needs to be normalized. The way a cold is simply just that, normal, everyone gets a cold. This is a far too sensitive subject. You have a cold? You take medicine. You have cancer? You get treatment. You break ...

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