Its been a while

I have stuff in my head and heart that I just have to get out so this seemed like the best way to do it. 

Last night I had a conversation about mental illness, all of us in one way or another have been or are struggling with mental illness. For some, it was trying to parent kids who are afflicted or going through things themselves. Our children stuck in the pit of hell that is mental illness.

As I walked away from that conversation my heart hurt so badly. I cried myself to sleep because of it and I cried out to God in my prayers to do something about it. Children, our babies, are talking about taking their lives and having a plan in place to do it. What in the world!!! Why isn't this front-page news? Why isn't the world talking about this and taking action to do something about it?

I feel like this is such an uphill battle! We're starting a mental health ministry at my church finally but it's something I've been fighting for for 10 years. I know things always happen in God's timing so I am at peace with it, but I feel like people don't understand the urgency of mental health. 

You can have sickness in every organ in your body, why not the brain? A friend says just like you go for checkups on your body you should get checkups on your brain as well. Why is that not the norm?

I'm probably preaching to the choir, but I'm very broken and frustrated and my heart aches. Mental illness is killing people, and we have to do something to stop it.