Rescue me!

… rescue me! Rescue me!! Rescue me!!! Cried the drowning man. She heard him, she saw him, yet she moved on. “Why would you do that?” They asked her. “If you had listened carefully”, she told them, “you would have heard more than one cry”. There was another cry, a more urgent cry, my personal person was drowning as well. I can only rescue one person, I attended to the more urgent one.

Rescue me! Rescue me!! Rescue me!!! The cry came again. She heard and saw again, yet she moved on. “Why would you do that?” They asked again. He does not need rescuing, she responded. If you look closely, you will note that he is not drowning, he is only seeking attention. If you listen attentively, you will note there is no urgency or fear in his cry, it is a jesting cry, a false alarm, akin to the boy who cried wolf.

Rescue me! Rescue me!! Rescue me!!! The cry came the third time. She heard and she saw but walked away yet again. “Why would you do that?” They asked yet again. I heard and I saw, she replied, but I can’t rescue the drowning man, I am not a lifeguard, I can’t even swim. To try to rescue him will lead to two of us drowning.

Rescue me! Rescue me!! Rescue me!!! The cry came the last and final time. Shw heard, she saw, she jumped in and rescue him and they were both safe.

Not all call for help, we can respond to, some are just beyond us, others land at a time when we ourself are crying out, howbeit silently. Some land at just the right time, when we are willing and able to help and we do help. Wisdom is important and self preservation also has it’s place. A drowning person can not rescue another drowning person irrespective of how loud the cry of the second drowning person is. Somethings can only be done from a place of safety.

Take care of you in order to be able to take care of others!