Zero Male Suicide. (Part Two)

We continue from where we left off yesterday.

I had an interesting question from a dear sister and friend, coming off of yesterday's introduction. She wrote, "...Are men more prone to suicides? If so, exactly why?" Though the very nature of this discussion is not to compare between the genders, I did not hold back in answering to the best of my knowledge. My answer was in the affirmative, and I postulated the following possible reasons for it.

“Pretty much at every age, women seem to survive better than men,” says Steven Austad, an international expert on aging, and chair of the biology department at the University of Alabama. His longevity database shows that all over the world and as far back as records have been kept, women outlive men by around five or six years. He describes them as being more “robust.”

According to a tally maintained by the global Gerontology Research Group, today, 43 people around the world are known to be living past the age of 110. Of these supercentenarians, 42 are women. “There’s something about being a human female that was shaped by evolution. There’s a lot of mortality along the way that really can account for it,” says Adrienne Zihlman, an anthropologist at the University of California, Santa Cruz.

The seeming weaker and delicate exterior of women seems to be well compensated for by their robust interior. The shouting ruggedness and dexterity of the average man are humbled by its seeming less robust interior, it appears. We all need to love more on the men in our lives, and not assume they are okay. Their physical structure is hiding the shouting boy on the inside asking to be loved.

The Saint.

#zeromensuicide #happyinternationalmensday

PS. Statistics culled from The Guardian.

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Zero Male Suicide. (Part One)

Happy International Men's Day once again.

The theme for this year's commemoration is "Zero Male Suicide." I can hear some ignoramus already picking a fight with that. They are wondering why it should not have been "Zero Suicide." Why the focus on men? they ask. Why not? I ask in return. 'Tis our day after all. The focus on men does not negate the other gender. It is simply for the purpose of dealing with the specific nature of gender issues.

That brings to mind another set of ignoramuses, who supposed we are all wired the same. How so dumb? Yes, we are all the same at the human level, yet there are differences at the gender level. A man is a man and is so wired. Yes, first as a human, then as a man. In his humanity, he is the same as the woman. In his masculinity, he is different from a woman. Just as a woman in her femininity is different from a man.

How difficult is it to understand this? It sure takes a whole lot of effort to misrepresent this. Only those seeking some strange untoward agenda try to confuse this erstwhile clarity. He who created them, created them different in gender, but similar in humanity. The hormones that produce the differentiating physiologies in both act differently and not only affect the physiologies but also the psychologies.

Now this is getting long. And, I don't like long. I am going to break this down into manageable chunks. Will continue tomorrow. That will give me the opportunity to celebrate men, not only today but the whole week.

Happy International Men's Day, and for us here, Week.

The Saint.

#zeromensuicide #happyinternationalmensday

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Book Club with The Saint | The Good Life | Chapter Four | Social Fitness | Part Four.

Welcome to our Book Club. So glad to have you join us. 

We continue reading our Sixth Featured Book, "The Good Life," by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz. This is our fourth and final segment reading into Chapter Four: "Social Fitness."

Get yourself a seat, tighten your belt, and let us take flight. 

The Saint.

Book Club with The Saint | The Good Life | Chapter Four | Social Fitness | Part Three | Loneliness.

Welcome to our Book Club. So glad to have you join us.

We are reading our Sixth Featured Book, "The Good Life," by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz. Last week with did an introduction to the book. Today we start with Chapter One: "What Makes a Good Life?" This Chapter will take several sessions to get through. We are not in a hurry. We are going to allow ourselves to soak it all in.

So, get yourself a seat, tighten your belt, and let us take flight.

The Saint.

Book Club with The Saint | The Good Life | Chapter One - A.

Welcome to our Book Club. So glad to have you join us.

We are reading our Sixth Featured Book, "The Good Life," by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz. Last week with did an introduction to the book. Today we start with Chapter One: "What Makes a Good Life?" This Chapter will take several sessions to get through. We are not in a hurry. We are going to allow ourselves to soak it all in.

So, get yourself a seat, tighten your belt, and let us take flight.

The Saint.

Believers' Prayer Meeting with The Saint | R 18 W 2 D 3.

Welcome to The Upper Room. So glad to have you join us.

We continue with our meditations in The Book of Daniel, as we dig into verse 3 of Chapter 12. It reads,

"Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever."

Believers' Prayer Meeting with The Saint | R 18 W 2 D 2.

Welcome to The Upper Room. So glad to have you join us.

"Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever."

“The Lord possessed me at the beginning of His way, before His works of old." [Proverbs 8:22] In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth with wisdom as His master craftsman and director of the work. [Proverbs 8:30] God came upon the dark and wicked state of the earth. And wisdom began to fathom all that could come out of the hopeless situation. Wisdom hoped against hope. 

Ever been there? A state of hopelessness and utter darkness, where tomorrow seems impossible. Even though it might not appear so today, but "Been there, done that." Wisdom came and rescued me from the mental sickness. And it will do the same for you today. It will calm down your nerve, declaring, "Peace, be still." That is the environment where wisdom does its best work. Peace. Stillness.

"For thus says the Lord God, the Holy One of Israel: “In returning and rest you shall be saved; in quietness and confidence shall be your strength.” But you would not." (Isaiah 30:15) The fear of the LORD is the beginning of Wisdom. [Proverbs 9:10] Wisdom calms the ragging sea of doubt and brings us to a place of rest in belief.

The last time I fell into depression it was because of an incidence which made me question Hebrews 13:5-6: 

"Let your conduct be without covetousness; be content with such things as you have. For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” So we may boldly say: “The Lord is my helper;

I will not fear. What can man do to me?”" 

How could this incident have befallen me and this scripture be true? I asked. Well, it was a asking which I struggled with for two (2) full years. I found no wisdom above The Word of God, no matter how much I tried. I was stuck for as long as I did not submit to the truth of His Word. My joy and happiness were gone. God still blessed others through me, regardless. I just did not keep the soak.

I came to my senses when I finally realized God was waiting on me, not me waiting on Him. He had nothing else to offer me other than His word. He has already done His part. The next move was mine. The next move was mine to be still and rightly appropriate His person and His Word. It was to believe God and render everyone else and thing a liar. That I finally did and the rest is history.

We see this in creation in God's response to "The earth without form, and void; and darkness on the face of the deep." God still, quiet, and confident. He did not allow the situation have the better of Him. Nope. He rose above the circumstance and situation. And, contemplated what to do about it. He responded, not react. When He was done with His plan, He began to execute. That is what wisdom does.

The Saint.