The 5:30am distress post

 Last week an incident happened a man posted in our church men WhatsApp forum making a distress call over issues that were weighing him down.honestly I never came to know what the issue really was but it was really a frustrated cry of a man who had reached his end of the rope. By coincidence we share the same baptism name with this distressed brother and he has used his name to identify his contacts. 

 A few years ago I was personally knocked off and was at ground zero for quite a time but that's a story for another day. 

So my fellow men naturally misconstrued this incidence as mine and so that day all day I recieved all manner of calls from several of them.

But from those calls I can tell you A man must love himself,because he's the only one who truly can. It's like expressing emotions or admitting you need help as a man is weakness.

The first call was from a brother and his first words were,"You are a man why are you crying?"

Another one, "Do you want us to come with axes and matchetes or what?"

Even before first inquiring whether I was the one or what was really the problem.

[And I silently asked God to bless me so that I stop being associated with problems]

And I asked myself where is the place of man in the world of mental health and wellness. Where are we to run to if and when darkness fills our path? 

It is imperative to appreciate that men have hearts they are not impervious to distress frustration and feeling of hopelessness. 

And that when find the courage to seek for help it's important to be each others keeper and to understand that sometimes and to some people tenacity is low and snapping is inevitable