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EP388 TO HELL AND BACK | RODNEY & TAMARA LAROUX | LIFE CHANGE INTERNATIONAL
Tamara had been to church on and off for most of her young life. After her parents were divorced when she was six, Tamara was overwhelmed with feelings of rejection, loneliness and despair. She lived with her mother and when her father would call he would talk to her two sisters. “I just didn’t understand why my father would talk to the others, but not want to talk to me,” Tamara says.
One day in September 1985, Tamara, then 15, took her mother’s 38-caliber gun. She was crying out to God to forgive her and stepped into the shower. Tamara knelt to her knees and placed the gun to her head. After taking a long breath, she calmly asked Jesus to forgive her one last time.
“A small still voice told me to remove the gun from my head and place it at my chest,” says Tamara. This still small voice gently told her that it would be easier for her family to find her that way. So she cautiously placed the gun on the left side of her heart and gently placed her finger on the trigger.
The gun ignited with a sudden discharge. Instantly, Tamara felt the piercing burn of the bullet as it passed through her chest. Blood began to fill her lungs. She laid back in the shower until her eyesight slowly dimmed. She breathed her last breath as death gripped her soul.
TRAUMA
WEIGHT OF SOCIAL PRESSURE
PAIN OF BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS | PARENTS DIVORCE
MEAN STEPMOM
WORDS TO DESCRIBE YOUR EMOTIONAL STATE AND HOW FELT ABOUT YOUR LIFE
THIS IS MOST TEENS: WHAT MADE YOUR SITUATION DIFFERENT IN YOUR MIND?
SUICIDE ATTEMPT | GUN MISFIRE
TO HELL AND BACK
HOW DID YOU KNOW IT WAS HELL? DESCRIBE
WHY DO YOU THINK GOD SHOWED IT TO YOU?
SPARED YOU?
AFTERMATH
HOW PROCESSED IT?
HOW DID YOU APPROACH FAITH IN GOD AFTER?
WHAT SOCIAL CIRCLE BECAME?
FAMILY DYNAMIC AFTER?
TEENAGE TROUBLE
WRONG CHOICES
TEENAGE PREGNANCY
PRO-LIFE VS BOYS PARENTS
SINGLE TEENAGE MOM
STAYED IN SCHOOL? GED?
MOVED AROUND A LOT AFTER HS
FAST FORWARD
HUSBAND RODNEY
AUTHOR
700 CLUB w PAT ROBERTSON
ADVICE TO TEENS
MINISTRY: LIFE CHANGE INTL
https://lifechangeintl.com
https://tamaralaroux.com
https://www2.cbn.com/article/not-selected/tamara-laroux-surviving-suicide-attempt
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By John Shibley
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Tamara had been to church on and off for most of her young life. After her parents were divorced when she was six, Tamara was overwhelmed with feelings of rejection, loneliness and despair. She lived with her mother and when her father would call he would talk to her two sisters. “I just didn’t understand why my father would talk to the others, but not want to talk to me,” Tamara says.
One day in September 1985, Tamara, then 15, took her mother’s 38-caliber gun. She was crying out to God to forgive her and stepped into the shower. Tamara knelt to her knees and placed the gun to her head. After taking a long breath, she calmly asked Jesus to forgive her one last time.
“A small still voice told me to remove the gun from my head and place it at my chest,” says Tamara. This still small voice gently told her that it would be easier for her family to find her that way. So she cautiously placed the gun on the left side of her heart and gently placed her finger on the trigger.
The gun ignited with a sudden discharge. Instantly, Tamara felt the piercing burn of the bullet as it passed through her chest. Blood began to fill her lungs. She laid back in the shower until her eyesight slowly dimmed. She breathed her last breath as death gripped her soul.
TRAUMA
WEIGHT OF SOCIAL PRESSURE
PAIN OF BROKEN RELATIONSHIPS | PARENTS DIVORCE
MEAN STEPMOM
WORDS TO DESCRIBE YOUR EMOTIONAL STATE AND HOW FELT ABOUT YOUR LIFE
THIS IS MOST TEENS: WHAT MADE YOUR SITUATION DIFFERENT IN YOUR MIND?
SUICIDE ATTEMPT | GUN MISFIRE
TO HELL AND BACK
HOW DID YOU KNOW IT WAS HELL? DESCRIBE
WHY DO YOU THINK GOD SHOWED IT TO YOU?
SPARED YOU?
AFTERMATH
HOW PROCESSED IT?
HOW DID YOU APPROACH FAITH IN GOD AFTER?
WHAT SOCIAL CIRCLE BECAME?
FAMILY DYNAMIC AFTER?
TEENAGE TROUBLE
WRONG CHOICES
TEENAGE PREGNANCY
PRO-LIFE VS BOYS PARENTS
SINGLE TEENAGE MOM
STAYED IN SCHOOL? GED?
MOVED AROUND A LOT AFTER HS
FAST FORWARD
HUSBAND RODNEY
AUTHOR
700 CLUB w PAT ROBERTSON
ADVICE TO TEENS
MINISTRY: LIFE CHANGE INTL
https://lifechangeintl.com
https://tamaralaroux.com
https://www2.cbn.com/article/not-selected/tamara-laroux-surviving-suicide-attempt
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