"By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another.” John 13:35 (ESV)
Yvette Vickers, a former model and B-movie star, best known for her role in Attack of the 50-Foot Woman, would have
been 83 in August 2011, but nobody knows exactly how old she was when she died.
According to the Los Angeles coroner's report, she lay dead for the better part of a year before a neighbor and fellow actress, a woman named Susan Savage, noticed cobwebs and yellowing letters in her mailbox, reached through a broken window to unlock
the door, and pushed her way through the piles of junk mail and mounds of clothing that barricaded the house. Upstairs, she found Vickers's body, mummified, near a heater that was still running. Her computer was on too, its glow permeating the empty space.
The Los Angeles Times posted a story [about Vickers' death] that quickly went viral.
Within two weeks ... Vickers's lonesome death was already the subject of 16,057 Facebook posts and 881 tweets. She had long been a horror-movie icon .... Now she was an icon of a new and different kind of horror: our growing fear of loneliness.
How incredibly sad that someone (anyone,) could fall through the relational "cracks" of this world, and end up dying alone, (with no one really looking for
her,) for that length of time. Loneliness is a terrible blight on humanity, and as Christians, we have the privilege AND obligation to make sure that those who might be experiencing it are given some attention.
Who in your sphere might be lonely today? Let's ask God to help us relieve those that are struggling with this
condition.
Have a great day and God bless!
