Away from home as a college student in the...

Away from home as a college student in the sixties, I was faced with many troubling questions about life—who I was, the purpose and worth of living. Religion didn't seem necessary for life.

Like others, I wanted to be truly free. But this desire to "really live" led to an emotional breakdown, despondency, and an almost overwhelming desire to take my own life.

I had a great fear of alcoholism and of coping with daily living. One day I was sitting in my room, feeling overwhelmed by stormy thoughts of self-destruction, when I heard a faint voice say to me, "What is happening to you is not right." It was this quiet voice that jarred me from following the strong temptation to end my life that afternoon. I then felt impelled to call home. With my mother's encouragement I was able to drive home from college.

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