Son, We Need to Talk
Coping with My Son’s Suicide
- Counseling, Grief & Mental Health
- Publisher: Cascade Books (Wipf and Stock)
- Published: 2023
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Publisher's Description
"Son, We Need to Talk" candidly confronts the tough topic of suicide--not an easy assignment for a pastor father. Could he have done anything to save his son's life? How did he miss the signs? And what about his prayers asking God to protect all his children? "Son, We Need to Talk" reveals one's father's struggle to regain his balance when his almost twenty-seven-year-old son, brilliant and full of promise, at last gives in to the bouts of depression that had haunted him for so long. In a loving suicide letter, he explains himself, but the reasons he writes down as carbon monoxide fills his vehicle do little to ease the family's pain. His father pleads for him not to kill himself, but of course he's too late. The author can't save the young man, but he does at long last fight his way back to peace. In "Son, We Need to Talk," the author confesses his sense of a loss beyond calculation, of a faith unafraid to ask questions (even of God), of a love that will not let go, and of the ultimate triumph of hope.
Endorsements (3)
“Don’t read this book if you are too proud to cry, because it will soften your heart and make you weep. Don’t read this book if someone you love took their own life and you prefer to grieve alone, because LeRoy Lawson, who has been there, will come alongside to comfort you. Don’t read this book if you have put God in a box, because this book will expand your concept of God’s amazing grace and healing power.”
“LeRoy Lawson’s poignant conversation with his late son, Lane, is among the most moving sagas I’ve ever read. Somehow, he manages to write in a way that one feels pain, hope, joy, and struggle in nearly every single sentence. If you are a parent or find yourself engaged in the lives of young adults, you will find this conversation to be one where you rejoice that Lawson had the courage to write and you had the opportunity to read.”
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