sadness

I learned of something that is so very sad this evening. A lady that I've known for some time at a church we were previously members of has taken her life. She was a sweet, loving woman. Her smile from the choir loft made everyone in the room feel welcomed. Her husband of 37 years died in mid-August and she never was able to get back to living herself. She withdrew from church, from family, from life. Sad. I do not condemn what this lady did. Her heart was broken and she didn't know where to turn for relief from her pain. I wonder what I would have done. And I wonder what any of us who knew her could have done.