"If our kids are feeling lonely, it is not because there is a lack of people but because there is a lack of love & connection between them. ~ Yvonne Dutra-St. John,
co-founder of 'Challenge Day' with husband Rich Dutra-St. John
Perfectly said. My life path has been and presently is all about walking alone. I can honestly admit that I did not know how to engage people. Today I have found my unique way of greeting people and allowing them to see that I am safe. However, I still walk alone. It is not by choice. Because it seems to be out of my hands, I feel that it is God-Designed for a purpose.
The past few days have been quite restless because I felt isolated by a person I once had felt close to who took their presence away from me. For some reason this aloneness that I have has been a strength to keep me from trying to follow the crowd. My guts have been God-Sourced. At thiry-something I feel that I am to be the Voice of Loneliness because I know it most itimately through childhood, teenhood,and now adulthood. Sadly, my Voice seems to be echoing across an empty wilderness...
The love inside me is growing deeper. Just maybe I am on to something... like God leading me in new love expressions ... ahhh, the mystery of adventure!!!
[8] Let no debt remain outstanding, except the continuing debt to love one another, for he who loves his fellowman has fulfilled the law. [9] The commandments, "Do not commit adultery," "Do not murder," "Do not steal," "Do not covet,"* and whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this one rule: "Love your neighbor as yourself."* [10] Love does no harm to its neighbor. Therefore love is the fulfillment of the law. [11] And do this, understanding the present time. The hour has come for you to wake up from your slumber, because our salvation is nearer now than when we first believed. [12] The night is nearly over; the day is almost here. So let us put aside the deeds of darkness and put on the armor of light. [13] Let us behave decently, as in the daytime, not in orgies and drunkenness, not in sexual immorality and debauchery, not in dissension and jealousy. [14] Rather, clothe yourselves with the Lord Jesus Christ, and do not think about how to gratify the desires of the sinful nature.* (Rom 13:8-14 NIV)
Love is a balance of taking timeouts to clothe yourself with Jesus and actively love on others. You have to be able to do both in every moment of every day to be healthy. No huge chunks of timeouts! When you have the balance down, the two halves flow quite nicely together.
V > the great divide
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