Finding God in my loneliness

A Pastoral Christian letter offering reassurance and reflection on how emotional and physical disconnection can reveal the deeper need for spiritual connection. This Pastoral Christian letter serves as reassurance to Poppy that her loneliness can be a doorway to deeper spiritual connection with God, who offers comfort and purpose in hardship, encouraging her to trust […]

LONELINESS

Ever wondered what it’d be like to be living alone on a small inaccessible island?  Lighthouse keepers are not the only ones who do – there are many who either choose to be alone or who find themselves alone through life circumstances.   Unwanted singleness, bereavement, friendship breakdown, loss of sight, hearing or capacity and loneliness can descend like a dark dense brooding cloud.  Joan Collins said that ‘loneliness is the universal problem of rich people’ yet surely it is the poor who are often short of friends.

  • ‘Loneliness is the ultimate poverty’ – Pauline Phillips
  • ‘Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty’ – Mother Teresa