Alone…
Last week I watched the compelling yet harrowing program ‘Alone in the wild’. This is a not a cheesy horror flick but rather a series being aired by channel 4, where camera man Ed Wardle is dropped in the Canadian wilderness alone for 12 weeks. The series then follows his video diary of his experiences. They are brutally honest, exceptionally emotional and worrying sometimes of being ALONE.
As I watched the program, at how desperate Ed becomes (at one point he cries out “I wish someone would help me”), of how hopeless he becomes, of the effect it has on his mental and emotional health (in one of the video’s he explains he just starts crying whenever he films), everything within me wanted to jump into the screen and say YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
The thing is as I watched the program powerless to do anything about Ed’s situation I realised that the reality is, that there are people much closer to me and you than the Canadian Wilderness who feel this alone! It could be as you read this you know exactly what I am talking about as it is you!
YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
When we feel alone it leaves us feeling desperate, hopeless it impacts our emotions and our mental health – how do I know this because I witnessed it through Ed’s program but more than that, as I watched Ed it resonated with me because I have known times like it myself.
It is because of what it results in with everything within me I want to say, You are not alone!
For some of us we need to here this. The bible states that God is always with us , that even if we feel like we are in the darkest of places, God is there. We are not alone. For some of us we need to know the fact that God isn’t out to get us but rather to find us, to allow us to know we are not alone. For some of us we need to take a huge risk in our aloneness and reach out!
We need to reach out to God who is there and we need to reach out to the people around us and say HELP!
I know this is risky, but it works!
For other’s of us, we don’t feel alone but we need to be those who look out for others who are and be quick to shout out in our words and actions YOU ARE NOT ALONE!
