This story makes me really sad. It is one of I am sure many to come out of the Gulf spill where lives are being swept away b the oil. When I see this news pieces and see the quote..”He had everything going for him. He was at the top of his game”

Now I don’t know all the details of this man’s life and I am not going to claim weather or not he had God in his life. But I find it hard to believe that anyone that walks closely with God would take his own life. Despair struck at the core of this life. His life centered around fishing. As it says in the news story. He was one heck of a fisherman.

Some of Jesus’ disciples where fishermen, Jesus beckoned them to become Fishers of Men.

Lord, I pray for not only this man’s family who have suffered a tremendous loss, but for all the families in the Gulf who are suffering. I beg you to turn their hearts from cold, to turn them to you. You are our Rock! You are our salvation!

The ways of this world will always disappoint! But our hope in you is everlasting and we have freedom and peace from all the things of this world when we put our trust in you God.

Help to make the hearts of the people of the Gulf turn to you for the answers. All the answers to life’s issues are in your words.
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Oil Spill ‘Too Much’ for Skipper Who Killed Self

(June 24) — Two weeks after he was hired by BP to help with the oil spill cleanup, William Allen Kruse killed himself.
The 55-year-old charter boat captain shot himself in the head Wednesday morning as he prepared to spend another day skimming oil off the waters of the Gulf of Mexico, clearing the spill that threatened to destroy his livelihood and community.
Kruse left no note, so it’s impossible to know why he took his life. But those who knew him say the veteran fisherman and father of four was almost certainly the latest casualty in the gulf oil crisis, and a symbol of the spill’s exacting human toll.
“He had everything going for him. He was at the top of his game,” Ard said. “He was the kind of guy that made everyone smile, and he was one heck of a fisherman.”
William Allen Kruse
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