Darkness and Suicide

I have commented on the blog post mentioned in this tweet …

Day 27's post #AdventBlog by @fuchsia_blue ponders dark times, self-awareness & the turning of the year: On Darkness https://t.co/vQPQ44ANzS

— Kate Griffiths-Lambe (@KateGL) December 27, 2016

as follows …

A new podcast this year has been Jocko Willink's Jocko Podcast. Jocko is a former Navy SEAL who is now working as a business consultant. He has talked powerfully and memorably on evil and darkness on the back of his military service in hellish warzones.

In a recent episode (video) of his podcast, he discussed the taboo subject of darkness and suicide with Tim Ferriss (whose podcasts recently reached the 100 million download milestone). This is the first subject covered in this episode.

For me, as a Christian, the light is greater than the darkness. The poem "Rob's God", written by Gerard Kelly as part of a eulogy for an actor/poet who died of cancer, is a great example of this. That poem and others can be found in "Spoken Worship: Living Words for Personal and Public Prayer". Lots of great content also for poets and writers.

I recommend Jocko's podcast highly. It has brought me a whole stack of new perspective over 2016 and was recently listed by Apple as one of the 12 Best Podcasts of 2016; "Leadership, fitness, military history — retired Navy SEAL Jocko and his guests turn any topic into a riveting life lesson."