The Avon Lady

Having another crisis, and feeling overwhelmed, Kim stared at the bottle, with all the pills, feeling depressed and dismayed, she felt she couldn't live another day… Reaching for the bottle, screwing off the lid, she held her palm out to catch a bunch of pills, Sitting with them in her hand on the couch, she thought, "this is it," and was about to put them in her mouth, when all of sudden, her door bell rang, and putting the pills aside, she temporarily postponed her suicide... Opening up her door, stood an Avon lady, saying to Kim, "Hi hon, can I come in?" Kim said "I guess so," with a weak grin, Their conversation quickly turned from make-up to Jesus, Kim explaining to her, that her life was such a mess, the avon lady said she also did Bible studies too, and before she left she gave Kim a new Bible, her cell number, and a scripture or 2, Kim looked up the scriptures and then she read Jeremiah 1:5, saying that God knew her before she was formed in the womb, and then Matthew 11:28, saying that if you pray to God, that He will give you rest… after reading those 2 scriptures, she felt more at peace, thinking maybe this was all just a test... thanking God for that Avon ladies advice, and for making her think twice about taking her life. Hebrews 13:2 This poem is dedicated to anyone who is thinking of suicide and my older sister Patti who lost her son Joey 16 years ago to suicide.