Today was sad.

Today was tough.  This morning someone came into my office and told me a student at one of our schools that we pull a lot of kids from committed suicide last night.  I was shocked, and soon after that got a call from this incredible mom who told me her son was pretty close with the boy who died.  Her son and I had been meeting for the last 4 weeks or so, and today just happened to be the day he was coming in.  She said he'd come see me at 4:00, and was pretty worried about her son and how he would react.  

Then I went to lunch with an old friend from college, who told me his pastor just resigned from his church because he was having an affair with someone outside the church.  Sad.  

During lunch I felt my phone vibrate, and checked my voicemail when I got back to my office.  A good friend of mine left me a 2 minute voicemail asking me to pray because he was going to tell his wife that afternoon that he'd been unfaithful to her.  So sad. This is a dear friend of mine. I had no idea it was going on, and was completely shocked. 

Then, my student comes by at 4:00, we talk for an hour, pray, and he feels completely numb. I'm praying for him like crazy. I ran home and grabbed a granola bar, and headed to a prayer meeting for the student that passed away.  There were about 400 high school students there.  2 of our student ministry volunteers pulled into the parking lot at the same time I did, hugged their small group guys, told them they were so sorry for losing their friend, and loved on them for about an hour and a half.  The highlight of my day was seeing 2 committed volunteers love students well.  These 2 guys have invested 5 years in the boys that are in their small group.  I thanked them for being so faithful, and headed home.