Alone

The story of the sick man who waited in the porticos alongside the pool of Bethesda for 38 years for someone to help him, is bad enough...38 years is a long time to be waiting for a cure.  We complain when we have to wait 3 months for a doctor's appointment.  But in addition to his long wait, he was alone:  "I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up." (Jn 5: 6).   How many people are lonely like this?  A recent video gone viral shows a young boy praying over a homeless person.  Touching, but sad, too:  alone in the streets,  with someone he didn't even know praying over him...as was the case with the sick man.  He didn't even know who cured him. 
These incidents are a call to us to reach out and  BE there, even for the stranger, for who can measure the impact of our attention on someone "who has no one" ?
Bro. Rene