Learn to comfort people without mentioning God. Your comfort isn't my comfort. Speaking of God and heaven is not comforting at all to me. Why? Because I was taught God sends people to hell for taking their own life. As a child, I was told "there's no chance for repentance" when that happens, so they are "condemned" to hell. I remember those words specifically being used. Talk of suicide was highly uncomfortable in my teen years. Especially after a school acquaintance took his life with a shotgun in a house I could see from my window. We rode the same bus. Months later, when his brother visited our church, the speaker talked about the "Word of God" being a weapon (specifically a gun) to blow away the devil. I did not take my eyes off that young man for the entire night. How fucking awful. I watched classmates & groups of kids from the "popular clicks" try to help him. He didn't want their help. Where were they before this h...
Sometimes it's crazy. Sometimes it's calm.