Wednesday of the Fourth Week in Lent

“ You are not alone.”

At he end of the latest Harry Potter movie, Dumbledore reminds Harry that he has friends and more importantly “he is not alone.” Bad times are coming but Harry is not alone.

As children, as young adults, as adults, and in the very end of our lives we fear being alone. We live in a self-absorbed society, but we still fear being alone. We make mistakes fearing being alone. We make life decisions because we fear being alone. I can make a list that would take us to the “moon,” about decisions we make based on this one fear — being alone.

And at the same time despite all our efforts, each of us feel, at times, very, very alone.

Perhaps that is why we read about Christ’s cry “why have you forsaken me.” It is the most human and feared of emotions. For many, worse than physical pain is the fear of “being alone.” Maybe it is that emotion that Christ had to endure, more than physical suffering, before we could be totally redeemed.

Again, I do not have the answers.

However, if I have any answer during Lent it is this. “We ( you, I, us ) are not alone.” If there is any message that we can glean from the Bible it is “we are not alone.” Maybe each of us is called this Lent to bring this message to our fellow human beings when they experience bad times –”you are not alone.”

Webb

About the author

Webb Hubbell is the former Associate Attorney General of The United States. His novels, When Men Betray, Ginger Snaps, A Game of Inches, The Eighteenth Green, and The East End are published by Beaufort Books and are available online or at your local bookstore. When Men Betray won one of the IndieFab awards for best novel in 2014. Ginger Snaps and The Eighteenth Green won the IPPY Awards Gold Medal for best suspense/thriller. His latest, “Light of Day” will be on the bookstands soon.

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