There are a few guys on television that I really admire: One is Peter Budaj of the Colorado Avalanche. Another is Bear Grylls of Man vs. Wild.

As a guy, if you consider yourself a man’s man, you always think in the back of your mind that if you were stuck on a glacier in Patagonia that you could survive. Bear Grylls is the representation of what we would be like if we didn’t have to work for a living. On top of making me feel like a tough guy, I always admired the deeper emotion and attitude that Bear will reveal from time to time. Tonight I was watching the latest Man v Wild when Bear said that in his loneliest and darkest times, his Christian faith is what has kept him going and has been his “backbone”.

How true it is that the best survivors, when we are cold & lonely still find that no matter how strong we are, we need God. It seems pithy and trite to say, and our culture is vehemently against it, but there is no way of honestly living an entire human life without realizing that we need God.

There’s a scene in the movie “The Big Kahuna” when Danny Devito’s character (a depressed salesman contemplating suicide) asks Kevin Spaceys character if he wonders about God. Spacey’s character quickly goes into a diatribe about how there’s no point in thinking about God because all we have is the here and now.

“But you still think about him don’t you?” Devito asks.

“Of course” Spacey replies, “I’m human.”