Imitation is Suicide

In the readying Self- Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson, it says that "Imitation is suicide..." This is so true in today's society. We try to do what other people are doing and it all comes down to a big mess that we can't get ourselves out, the only way we know how to get out is by killing ourselves. Something like this happened to me this past year. I lost a very close friend to suicide. It is really hard losing someone you really trusted and they just leave because of everything that was going on in their life. Her family and I knew what she was going through but we didn't think it was bad enough for her to take her own life. I questioned everything at that time in my life. Why would God do something like that to me? Having me lose the one person that I loved and trusted the most. The one thing that got me through that time was prayer and reading the bible. While I was reading one day the verse Proverbs 3:5-6 stuck out to me. It says "Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding; in all your ways acknowledge Him and He will make your paths straight." This is one of my favorite verses of all time. It says to trust the Lord because in all of this something good will come out of it.