You Are Stronger Than Your Situations: Please Don't Jump

by Deloris E Jordan

Overview

Sometimes life hurts-a lot! When overwhelmed by its challenges and painful moments, some days just breathing itself requires almost more energy than we have to expend. It is in such times of despair and great exhaustion that we are pushed to the edge with thoughts of suicide. Beckoning us away from that edge with a message of hope, resiliency, and the understanding that God has not allowed us to be confronted with any situations that we cannot overcome, this book coaxes us to not give up on living. Turning our attention to our inner strength, it speaks to how intentional God was with gifting each of us life while reminding us that no one's life is perfect, but everyone's life has purpose. Having jumped off the edge several times in pursuit of death when overwhelmed by her life, the author writes earnestly of surviving those dark moments, finding peace, and becoming immensely grateful to still be alive. As with her first book, In My Family Shadows, Deloris E. Jordan grants readers an internal view of her personal struggle of survival with uncompromised transparency.

Through the sharing of her own experience with attempting suicide, the author aims to provide readers a compelling reason to forego ending their life and living out their story. Using her pursuit of death and her heartfelt gratitude to God for thwarting her efforts as the premise of her sharing, she writes candidly of coming to learn that she was indeed stronger than all of the situations in her life that once made suicide such an attractive remedy for her pain. She strives to convey to those in the throes of despair, that gut-wrenching pain that is driving them to consider death will not always dominate them. Although memories of their present heartache will probably never fade, the pain of the present moment will dissipate with time, and that fact is what they must hold on to, to survive the dark moments in their life.

Purposely, this book is a quick read for hurting individuals in need of immediate words of hope. Coupling her voice of encouragement with thought-provoking inserts from other faith-focused Christian writers, Deloris strives to offer comfort and resilience to counter thoughts of suicide and defeat.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780971447288
Publisher:	Jordan Signature Publishing, Incorporated
Publication date:	12/13/2020
Pages:	104
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.28(d)

About the Author

Deloris E. Jordan shares her name with her mother, who is also an author. With each author writing from their perspective roles as members of Michael Jordan's family, Deloris writes with a profound understanding of the comfort that can be provided to others through soothing words of encouragement. In addition to authoring books, she uses her voice as an inspirational speaker to share sentiments of hope, while paying homage to her Christian faith. The owner of YASTYS.COM, a company that offers a line of "visual" encouraging products, she is also the founder of Let's Start A Conversation, a nonprofit that brings individuals together to engage in encouraging and meaningful conversations. The mother of three and grandmother of five, Deloris resides in Pennsylvania, where she is also a licensed real estate agent.

Table of Contents

DEDICATION: This book is dedicated to all you marvelously complex individuals who have yet to realize just how much God loves you and how intentional He was with gifting you life.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

NOTE TO READERS ........."In that few of us walk around analyzing our strength and endurance, chances are that few of us truly know the depth of our capabilities. Life has a way of testing our resilience, however, with experiences that many of us would never willingly embrace on our own. Situations that many of us would deem impossible to withstand or to overcome. Of all the challenges in my life that I regarded as insurmountable, the ability to survive my dark moments was at the top of my list. The ability to survive them with my sanity intact was a close second. With no expectations of surviving, I also never envisioned possessing any authentic joy in my life either. It all seemed so farfetched and implausible achievements to strive for that for many years I came to care little about being victorious in such efforts. Today I am elated to say, however, that I not only achieved the milestone of surviving difficulties that I once thought to be unsurvivable but along the way I also came to be grateful for each heartrending situation that labored me with the burdensome task of living through them. I am not so appreciative that I would ever want to relive those arduous experiences again, however. But I am grateful enough to respect the lessons I gleaned from them, having walked away from each encounter stronger and wiser than I ever expected to be. But I did not survive those trying times so that I could write about them. I write about them because I survived them. Undoubtedly, God knew each time He intervened and thwarted my suicidal efforts that He would one day use me and those dark moments in my life to encourage you to believe in your own resilience. And to believe, likewise, in His ability to also get you to the other side of your dark times too-to joy! Such is the purpose of this book."

CHAPTER 1: Marked In Utter Seclusion ......... . . .... . . ...... 13

CHAPTER 2: Pathway To Becoming . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23

CHAPTER 3: Challenged To Change . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39

CHAPTER 4 Shhh - Take It All In . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

CHAPTER 5: Mocked But Healing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 73

CHAPTER 6: Created On Purpose For Purpose ..... . . .... . . .... . 81

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