There are two ingredients needed for life. I am not talking about breathing and having a heart beat, those are needed for survival. To be truly alive, someone needs to feel wanted. We are seeing an increasing number of suicides because people feel they aren’t wanted. If people feel no one cares about them, they may feel the world would be better off without them. I am reminded of a young girl. I was called to a railroad bridge because she was thinking about jumping. She had no gross disfigurement, she had not lost anyone close, and had not been jilted by a boyfriend, she just felt the world would be better off without her. She felt she was only taking up space. She felt if she ended her life, very few people would notice and those who did would probably be glad that she was gone. In our world, people are increasingly isolated. They are lonely even in a crowd. Many cannot name a single person that would miss them if they were gone. They may look normal and act normal, but they are dead inside. They go through the motions of living but they are merely surviving. I was one of those. I was just a poor crippled boy from the trailer camps. The only ones that seem to notice me were those who enjoyed bullying me, until someone told me that the God who created the world, cared about me and gave His life on the cross for me. However, they didn’t just tell me, they showed me by the way they cared. That changed my life. There are people all around you who are just going through the motions. They are surviving but not really living. One great crisis could push them over the edge to where they feel the world will be better off without them. You can help them have a new life by sharing the love of God with them.