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Date: Aug 21 09:12PM -0400
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When The Message Light Doesn't Blink
Author: Steve Goodier
Seeing one of her neighbor's children playing alone, a woman asked him where
his brother was. "Oh," he said, "he's in the house playing a duet. I
finished first."
Too many people find themselves playing a duet alone. Too many people are
lonely. They rise alone in the morning, they eat meals alone, they watch
television alone and retire alone in the evening. They have too few friends
and family to share their lives with. It feels as if they should be playing
a duet or an ensemble and everyone else finished first. They are more than
alone; they are lonely.
"I don't have an answering machine," one man said. "I live alone, and I'm
sometimes told that I've missed calls when I've been out. 'You should
really get an answering machine,' my friends tell me, but I won't. I don't
want to come home to find the message light not blinking. I don't want to
know with such certainty that no one tried to get in touch. It's worth
missing a message or two to avoid that."
A folktale tells of a monarch long ago who had twin sons. There was some
confusion about which one was born first. As they grew to young manhood,
the king sought a fair way to designate one of them as crown prince.
Calling them to his council chamber one day, he said, "My sons, the day will
come when one of you must succeed me as king. The burdens of sovereignty
are very heavy. To find out which of you is better able to bear them
cheerfully, I am sending you together to a far corner of the kingdom. One
of my advisors there will place equal burdens on your shoulders. My crown
will one day go to the one who first returns bearing his burden like a king
should."
In a spirit of friendly competition, the brothers set out together. Soon
they overtook a frail and aged woman struggling under a heavy weight. One
of the boys suggested that they stop to help her. The other protested: "We
have a burden of our own to worry about. Let us be on our way."
So the second son hurried on while the other stayed behind to help the woman
with her load. On his journey to the kingdom's edge, the same young man
found others who needed help. A sightless man who needed assistance home; a
lost child whom he carried back to her worried parents; a farmer whose wagon
needed a strong shoulder to push it out of the mud.
Eventually he did reach his father's advisor, where he secured his own
burden and started home with it safely on his shoulders. When he arrived
back at the palace, his brother met him at the gate and greeted him with
dismay. "I don't understand," the brother said, "I told Father the burden
was too heavy to carry. How did you manage it alone?"
The future king replied thoughtfully, "I suppose when I helped others carry
their burdens, I found the strength to carry my own."
Isn't that the secret of living with loneliness? When we find others who
need help with their burdens, we also find the strength to carry our own!
Get busy helping others, even if it is nothing more than making a phone call
or writing an encouraging note, and you'll find that your burden of
loneliness will become easier and easier to manage. And soon you'll be too
happy and busy to even notice if the message light is blinking.
"For he satisfieth the longing soul, and filleth the hungry soul with
goodness." -Psalm 107:9
"want Hy het die dorstige siel versadig en die hongerige siel met die goeie
vervul." -Psalm 107:9
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