Mother Teresa (who cared for those with leprosy) once said, “We have drugs for people with diseases like leprosy. But these drugs do not treat the main problem, the disease of being unwanted. That’s what my sisters hope to provide.” The sick and the poor, she said, suffer even more from rejection than material want. “An alcoholic in Australia told me that when he is walking along the street he hears the footsteps of everyone coming toward him or passing him becoming faster. Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty.” One need not be a doctor or a miracle worker to meet that need.
–Philip Yancey
Christians are called to provide help to the hurting.
And since the greatest hurt in life that people are experiencing is loneliness, since the worst disease is the feeling of being unwanted, then we are all equipped to provide the cure.
Reach out to someone today in love and kindness.