God is Stronger than Our Loneliness

The Bible study, Stronger

has been awesome.

I've felt for some times that

one of the greatest needs

that we have is

community.

Maybe that's why I blog.

Stephen Marche, "Is Facebook Making Us Lonely", writes

We are living in an isolation that would

have been unimaginable to our ancestors,

and yet we have never been more accessible.

Within this world of instant and absolute communication, 
unbounded by limits of time and space, 
we suffer from unprecedented alienation.
We have never been more detached from one another,

or lonelier.

 

FACEBOOK arrived in the middle of a dramatic

increase in the quantity and intensity of human loneliness,

a rise that initially made the site's promise of greater

connection seem deeply attractive... (yet)

Americans are more solitary than ever before.

Angela Thomas says,

Reasons for our loneliness are as diverse as

our personalities and journeys.

In my grief,

I longed for community, connection, and friendships

but they eluded me.

Much of my loneliness was of my own making.

Lonely, but fear of being lonelier.

During this study with another group of ladies,

I asked the question,

"From your experience, how do you connect?

What's the secret?"

The answers varied, but we all agreed,

for the Christian, God is greater, stronger

than our loneliness.

I cling to His promise,

"I will never leave you nor forsake you."

Hebrews 13:5

If we translated this from the original

Greek it would read more like this,

"I will not, I will not, I will not,

let you down, leave you in a lurch,

leave you destitute, leave you in straits or helpless,

or abandon you."

In my season of loneliness,

I found connection from unexpected people

in unexpected places. 

I walked in class this week
and this was sitting on my table.
A gift from a new friend.

It will forever remain among my treasures, 

to remind me that
God is stronger than my loneliness.
He is enough.

However,  He also knows that connections,
and friendships and relationships in Him are important
to our being whole.



Thankful that God is Stronger, 

Bonnie:)