Thursday, July 19, 2001
Thursday, July 19, 2001
How does God's love abide in anyone who has the world's goods and sees a
brother or sister in need and yet refuses help?
He smothered it with a blanket but still he heard it as if it were ticking in his own head. He tried to
sleep, but he could not. His distress and loneliness were too great.
It was then that help came. His grandmother saw the light burning in his room in the wee hours
and came to sit with him. Later when it came time for her to begin her own long journey from
which there is no return he touched her hair and knew in those moments that she had saved his
sanity. Into that lonely room at midnight she had come, abandoning her own sleep, in order to sit
with troubled young Loren. Eiseley never forgot what that meant to him.
To know that someone sees and understands. Sometimes that is all we need to know in order to
make it through a time of crisis.
(1 John 3:17
NRSV)
In one of his books writer and philosopher Loren Eiseley tells about the time when he was only a
young lad and his father died. His father died a slow death in great bodily torture. Eisley's mother
was deaf. Young Loren alone heard the sounds of his father's agony. This was before the wide
application of pain-killing drugs. Eiseley said a curious thing happened to him during that
very stress-filled time. He became so tense that he could no longer bear the ticking of the alarm
clock in his own bedroom.
Dear God, may I be a good servant when the call comes to help someone in a crisis. Amen.
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