It's A Small World After All

Living in a remote outback town in Western Australian, there are times when you can feel very cut-off from the rest of the world. Then there are the times when it feels like the whole world is connected by a major event, that wherever you are, in whichever country, speaking whatever language, you are all concentrating on one thing. It happened on the day that Lady Diana died in 1997, it happened when the Twin Towers fell on that fateful day in 2001. And it is happening now, but thankfully for far more positive reasons. I am currently glued to the television, watching the rescue attempt of the 33 Chilean miners trapped the depth of two Eiffel Towers underground. They have been down there, in a space no bigger than the average living room, suffering from incredible heat and humidity, for over two months. Amazingly, they are all still alive and the hope is that every single one of them will be safely brought up to the surface over the next day and a half.


The first rescue worker has been lowered into the escape shaft and has just hit the bottom, the first person the miners have seen in almost ten weeks and the world is anxiously watching it all. There is a live feed from the bottom of the shaft so wherever you are in the world – outback Australia, a city in England, a village in Chile – you can see the amazing events unfolding. There are times when it feels like a big old world, with peoples and cultures that are so different, but at times like this the world feels a lot smaller – no matter how many thousands of miles away from each other, how differently we look and sound and think, there are some things that bind us all as one species. We are all praying that these miners are brought safely back up to the surface.