Blog 3484 – 05.18.2025
Lives Of Lonely Desperation
When I was a boy there was a popular TV show starring David Jansen called The Fugitive. In the monologue introduction before each new episode we were reminded of the premise of the story – that Doctor Richard Kimball was falsely accused of the murder of his wife, but reprieved by fate when a train wreck freed him in route to the death house, freed him to live a life of lonely desperation searching for the one-armed man that he saw leaving the scene of the crime.
Sadly many people have tragedy and or trauma in their lives that cause them feel forced to live lives of lonely desperation. I recall a line from one of my favorite songs, Boy On A Bridge. It goes, “When the myth of isolation doesn’t move you anymore.”
Puny ego, the great enemy of our souls, is always shouting his lies in our ears. One of the biggest of those lies is that we are alone and separated from all help and comfort. We are not, the truth is that we are One with all the Universe, my favorite name for the God who is all in all and who is above all else – Love. What shall separate us from the love of God? This, that, or the other? Nothing, no thing, shall ever be able to separate us from the love of God.
After my sign off I will post a link to another of my favorite songs, Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles. The chorus of the song asks over and over again, “All the lonely people where do they all come from? All the lonely people where do they all belong?”
Some would divide us for political power over us and then some would reject us to make themselves feel superior when the fact is that it is they themselves that feel inferior. The answer to these problems and the myth of isolation is found in the lines of a poem that I first heard many years ago, but its message still rings true.
“He drew a circle that left me out
A heretic, a thing to flout.
But Love and I with the will to win,
We drew a circle that took him in.”
You are not alone for we are all in this together.
Your friend and fellow traveler,
David James White
Eleanor Rigby (Remastered 2015)
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