Everyone Feels Lonely Sometimes |
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Dear friends, let us love one another, for love comes from God. — 1 John 4:7 Years ago, I had breakfast with a group of writer friends who gather once a year, women whose names you’d know and faces you’d recognize. The conversation drifted to talking about the challenge of finding true connection in our everyday lives. I felt surprised — I never would have guessed these women struggled with loneliness. I’m discovering this is the secret every woman in the whole wide world tucks away inside: sometimes we are lonely. It’s a hard thing to talk about in this era of friending, liking, and sharing with the entire universe. - But being lonely is simply a symptom of being human, and sometimes it can even have unexpected gifts.
Loneliness teaches us better than perhaps anything else what we really want from community. For instance, if we tend to be lonely in groups, then we’re probably craving deeper one-on-one time. |
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To choose to love is to choose to be lonely sometimes. |
To choose to love is to choose to be lonely sometimes. |
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Loneliness also prompts us to appreciate the people we do have in our lives. If we never felt their absence, it would be much harder to treasure their presence. - To choose to love is to choose to be lonely sometimes.
Loneliness draws us closer to Jesus, who “loved us and gave Himself up for us” (Ephesians 5:2). When no human relationship can fully satisfy the longings of our hearts, we realize we are looking for Someone beyond this world.
Loneliness challenges us to open up and let people in even when we’re afraid. If we never felt lonely, then we would never take the risk to be vulnerable.
By the time that breakfast was over, I sensed a collective sigh of relief that came from our conversation. Our struggles lose their power when we can share them with even one person. That day I learned loneliness is inevitable; feeling alone in it is optional.
God, thank You that I am never truly alone. In moments of loneliness, remind me of what is true and help me to reach out to others and to You for the support I need. Give me eyes that see when others are lonely, too, so I can be a comfort to them as well. Amen.
~ Holley Gerth Loneliness is part of being human, and it can have unexpected gifts. |
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If you’re sometimes lonely, you’re in good company because all of us feel the hurt of loneliness on occasion. What gifts have you discovered through loneliness? How has being lonely drawn you to the God who loves you? ~ Devotionals Daily |
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No matter the reason for your lonely season, you are beloved, wanted, seen, and never alone |
Praying Through Loneliness: A 90-Day Devotional for Women |
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In a season of loneliness? Take comfort in the stories of other women who share their own honest experiences of feeling isolated, struggling to find friends, and still finding a meaningful way through.
With the current crisis of loneliness and lack of friendships in today's culture, this 90-day devotional offers both lived perspective and attainable promise for how to find community and friends.
Compiled by beloved author, Kristen Strong, who offers her two decades of experience as a constantly relocating military spouse and one decade as a settled civilian to address head on the rising pain point facing women today in startling numbers: an acute loneliness and isolation due to a lack of friends.
Praying Through Loneliness doesn't skip over the sadness and hardship loneliness brings. It doesn't offer trite advice or give spiritual formulas to shortcut the slow work of friendship. Instead, it offers an empathetic and hopeful accompaniment in the dark night you are walking through.
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Praying Through Loneliness is a compilation of stories from many women in all stages of life written to let you know that you are: -
Not alone in your sadness, frustration, or sense of rejection
- Not alone when you feel jealous of other women's friendships
- Not alone in the pain of a friendship breakup
- Not alone when you want to give up trying to connect again
- Not alone in your need to know that the Lord sees you in your loneliness, has a purpose for you during it, and won't abandon you as you walk through it
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Each daily devotional includes: - Scripture verse
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Vulnerable story where questions and regret are seen through the eyes of Jesus who is always walking beside you
- Hopeful message
- Meaningful prayer references for encouragement
Spend the next 90 days with come-alongside friends and the God who has said from the beginning that it is not good for us to be alone; let them lift your burden of loneliness. |
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| BY: JUSTIN WHITMEL EARLEY |
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| You'll Always Have a Friend |
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