Those of you that are Anchor man geeks will recognise that quote straight away. Ron Bergandie is a classic example of a men whose made it but whose only friend is his dog. I always find it quite sad that we so frequently say that the dog is a man's best friend. What does that say about our relationships? At headspace last week we looked at loneliness in relationship to the humanity of Chriist. In a capital of 7.5 million people loneliness is more common condition than the cold. I read a recent magazine that said 1 in 6 people in the UK don't have a single person they can talk to about personal issues. Having looked at the modern phenomena that is loneliness we went on to look at Christ's expereince of loneliness "Mty God My God why have you forsaken me". Drawing comfort from Christ's cries we moved on to conclude Christ's answer to loneliness was to reach out to others more lonely than ourselves.
My good friend Luke and the Watters made an installation that hung from the ceiling, suspended in space, we wrote our own feelings of loneliness onto it using UV pens and then prayed that we could see these cries of pain in others. As the lights came up at the end of the service the print on the figure could no longer be seen. Deep huh?!!
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