Everybody Everywhere Needs Somebody Sometime

Everybody Everywhere Needs Somebody Sometime is the title of one of Helen Steiner Rice's poems. I was just reading the poem, and thought "that is so true." I want to share it with you today for Spiritual Sundays.

Everybody, everywhere,

no matter what his station,

Has moments of deep loneliness

and quiet desperation.

For this lost and lonely feeling

is inherent in mankind--

It is just the Spirit speaking

as God tries again to find

An opening in the "worldly wall"

man builds against God's touch,

For he feels so self-sufficient

that he does not need God much,

So he vainly goes on struggling

to find some explanation

For these disturbing, lonely moods

of inner isolation . . .

But the answer keeps eluding him

for in his selfish finite mind

He does not even recognize

that he cannot ever find

The reason for life's emptiness

unless he learns to share

The problems and the burdens

that surround him everywhere --

But when his eyes are opened

and he looks with love at others

He begins to see not strangers

but understanding brothers . . .

So open up your hardened hearts

and let God enter in --

He only wants to help you

a new life to begin . . .

And every day's a good day

to lose yourself in others

And anytime a good time

to see mankind as brothers,

And this can only happen

when you recognize it's true

that everyone needs someone

and that someone is you!

-Helen Steiner Rice

And speaking of friends, there is no other friend like Jesus. He's the greatest friend of all, so if Jesus is not your friend, you need to make that your number one priority to get to know this wonderful Savior. Reading other posts in Spiritual Sundays will be helpful, and of course, the Bible is the best place to go.

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