“Most of all, I remember her laughing. It filled my ears. Her smile, her sparkling eyes, and her infectious laughter, along with… — Sharon E. Rainey Laughter Copy Share Image
“With each opportunity before me, God presented me with a choice. I could accept His offerings, His wisdom, His grace. Or I… — Sharon E. Rainey Choice Copy Share Image
“Life is messy. Grit and grace come at us fast, side by side. Sometimes the grit becomes overwhelming and diminishes our spirit.… — Sharon E. Rainey Gone forever Copy Share Image
“I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear.” — Sharon E. Rainey Depression Copy Share Image
“I thought that day was the end of my life. It was the end of the world as I knew and understood… — Sharon E. Rainey End of the world Copy Share Image
“I could accept my circumstances, my life, people, and even events around me, without giving my approval or releasing my control over… — Sharon E. Rainey Life Copy Share Image
“I’m not ‘different’ from anyone else. Crises and tough emotional periods are the grit around which my inner self has been formed.… — Sharon E. Rainey Inner self Copy Share Image
“Deep down inside of me, way down deep, in a place previously unknown; I heard it: a solid, honest, compassionate whisper. It… — Sharon E. Rainey Copy Share Image
“Most teenage suicide attempts are cries for help; the teens survive, succeeding in bringing them the wanted attention. Mine was not a… — Sharon E. Rainey Suicide Copy Share Image
“I call it an Aha! moment. It is the moment when I can hear, when I know, that an answer is being… — Sharon E. Rainey Time Copy Share Image
“No one gave me the secret decoder ring on how to make friends.” — Sharon E. Rainey Friendship Copy Share Image
“I was desperately searching for something to make sense; for the world to connect back with me.” — Sharon E. Rainey Copy Share Image
“If you stop drinking, I’ll stop taking Valium, and then we’ll see who’s who and who’s what.” — Sharon E. Rainey Stop drinking Copy Share Image
“I believe that time period was a gift of God’s grace. I have no other way to explain why I did not… — Sharon E. Rainey Time Copy Share Image
“Through each crisis in my life, with acceptance and hope, in a single defining moment, I finally gained the courage to do… — Sharon E. Rainey Acceptance Copy Share Image
“We cannot fully heal if we cannot experience gratitude on a daily basis.” — Sharon E. Rainey Daily life Copy Share Image
“I had to clear up my messy life. By letting go of the debris and filth, I have come to a deeper,… — Sharon E. Rainey Beauty Copy Share Image
“The pain had to be great enough for me to accept my reality, to hope that something different, and hopefully better, was… — Sharon E. Rainey Pain Copy Share Image
“Why did I want to die? Because living was just so damn hard, even at age 10. When all I had to… — Sharon E. Rainey Life Copy Share Image
“By first grade, my sense of worth was in direct proportion to what I learned and what I contributed back to the… — Sharon E. Rainey Being Copy Share Image
“I knew if I stayed where I was, nothing would get better; nothing would change. If I wanted to ease the pain,… — Sharon E. Rainey Pain Copy Share Image
“I did the only thing I knew how to do: I built my own walls of silence to disguise my desperation and… — Sharon E. Rainey Depression Copy Share Image
“I am not proud of this moment. It is not one I share with others often, and rarely have I done so.… — Sharon E. Rainey Time Copy Share Image
“Laughter lightens my heart and therefore heals my soul as well.” — Sharon E. Rainey Healing Copy Share Image
