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The theme of healing and the importance of friendship through a story of winnie the pooh, piglet and eeyore. The authors reflect on the different ways we deal with sadness, loneliness and feeling not much fun to be around, and how the presence of true friends can help us feel better. The text also touches upon the idea that we all need time for ourselves and moments of solidarity with others.
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I know it’s an odd title, but there are all kinds of thoughts swirling around my mind this week. I wondered if I should write something about the Service of Prayers for Healing in the Iona Tradition which will be at the church this Sunday night – perhaps focusing on what true healing of whatever troubles us is all about. But it seemed too self-serving, kind of like another way of advertising. I wondered if I should focus on the vigil to be held this Tuesday night at 7:00 p.m. at the Islamic Centre at the corner of Broadway and Queen Streets to mark the second anniversary of the Mosque Massacre in Quebec City – perhaps focusing on the need to build bridges instead of walls, all through education, through solidarity and through dialogue. However, it, too, seemed like another example of advertising. I pondered some more, thinking back to my oldest daughter’s teenage years. We would shrug our shoulders when the dirty laundry pilled up on her bedroom floor ankle deep and she would spend hours quietly playing her acoustic guitar cocooned in the middle of her bed. We would interrupt her sojourn from time to time, reminding her to finish her homework while offering to help. After all, it was worse in the long winter nights when her depression really sucked the energy and any motivation from her. Was this kind of story too personal to share? I still couldn’t decide on what to write. To procrastinate, I started lurking on Facebook. Ironically, my theme crystalized as I read the following story by A. A. Milne and E. H. Shepherd posted by a Facebook friend: It occurred to Pooh and Piglet that they hadn’t heard from Eeyore for several days, so they put on their hats and coats and trotted across the Hundred Acre Wood to Eeyore’s stick house. Inside the house was Eeyore. “Hello, Eeyore,” said Pooh. Mandy
“Hello, Pooh. Hello, Piglet.” said Eeyore, in a glum sounding voice. “We just thought we’d check in on you,” said Piglet, ”because we hadn’t heard from you, and so we wanted to know if you were okay.” Eeyore was silent for a moment. “Am I okay?” he asked, eventually. “Well, I don’t know, to be honest. Are any of us really okay? That’s what I ask myself. All I can tell you, Pooh and Piglet, is that right now I feel really rather sad, and alone, and not much fun to be around at all. “Which is why I haven’t bothered you. Because you wouldn’t want to waste your time hanging out with someone who is sad, and alone, and not much fun to be around at all, would you now.” Pooh looked at Piglet, and Piglet looked at Pooh, and they both sat down, one on either side of Eeyore in his stick house. Eeyore looked at them in surprise. “What are you doing?” “We’re sitting here with you,” said Pooh, “because we are your friends. And true friends don’t care if someone is feeling sad, or alone, or not much fun to be around at all. True friends are there for you anyway. And so here we are.” “Oh,” said Eeyore. “Oh.” And the three of them sat there in silence, and while Pooh and Piglet said nothing at all, somehow, almost perceptibly, Eeyore started to feel a very tiny little bit better. Because Pooh and Piglet were there. No more; no less. There are many of us who suffer sadness and loneliness and feeling not much fun to be around at all. Sometimes what we really need is time to ourselves. Other times, however, we need our friends, our neighbours, those who care for us. We don’t need them to “fix” us. We just need them to be there. That’s solidarity. That’s healing. That’s love. Maybe checking out Facebook wasn’t procrastinating after all….