[Magdalen] a death in the family--prayers please

[Eleanor Braun]

I'm so sorry, Jay.  There are no words, so just know all of us are
surrounding you and all who cared about Adam with love and prayers.  It
saddens and angers me that so many vets are taking their own lives.  What
are we doing to these young people??  Or not doing for them?

That's for another time.  Special prayers of comfort for Betsy, Jonathan,
Isaak and Betsy's boys, and for Adam's grieving mama.

Eleanor

On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 5:35 PM, Jay Weigel <jay.weigel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear pubbies, I wanted to let you know that my son Adam, for whom we've all
> been praying very hard this past year or so, could no longer bear the pain
> he was dealing with and took his life today.  Very strangely, I was almost
> not surprised when Jonathan called to tell me. I feel like I have been
> watching this coming for the last year, almost like watching an accident
> happening in slow motion.
>
> Jonathan is taking this very hard. He and Betsy have tried so hard to help
> Adam and he especially feels like he failed him somehow. I tried to tell
> him that he did all he could but sometimes you just can't help. I haven't
> talked to Betsy yet. She and Adam were very close and this coming on top of
> losing her dad and her grandmother in the last couple of years is bound to
> be another blow. It's also going to be very hard on Isaak and on Betsy's
> boys, who loved their Uncle Adam dearly.
>
> I don't know what arrangements will be. The only request Adam made was that
> he be buried in a Veterans' cemetery.
>