View 2- Its Not Time Yet
A young woman, about 17, had gone through everything. Her family was beyond dysfunctional. Her heart had been broken over and over. She felt unwanted and unloved- and to top it off, her friends stopped talking to her. She didn't know what she was doing wrong, and she didn't know how to do it right.
Then there came the thought of the way out. Suicide, she thought, was the only way. She was almost excited to imagine it, the freedom from the horrible life she knew, from the depression and the sadness. A new experience, she figured, to go on to something... else. Something better than this.
So, she climbed halfway up the pole of a billboard and pushed off, intending to leap several feet towards a deep creekbed adjacent to the billboard, where she would land on the rocks that made up the creek wall. But she didn't make it- instead, she landed on the dirt and debris far below. But not far enough.
Several of her ribs were broken. Her neck was fractured, her collar bone and left arm shattered in several places. But most importantly... her heart had stopped.
Subsequently, she was suddenly flooded in light. She felt love and warmth. She followed the illumination to where she met God. He stood in a long gown, made of light, on the other side of an abyss that she could not cross.
God said: "My child, your time has not come."
She replied, pleading: "I don't want to go back, nobody cares about me, and no one loves me. I want to stay here with you."
God told her: "But this is not your concern. You must learn to love yourself- the rest will follow. Your life is not yet finished."
In a flash of light, she was thrown back to the earth, where after a long recovery, she became a counselor for children. It was love that healed and guided her, and taught her that her duty was to give love to those like herself when she was a child.... who did not know love. And then, she had all the love she could possibly need.