Andrea (and non responders!)
Thanks for thinking and praying for me. Along with 1Peter I have been reading this book called, The Seeking Heart...I really like it. But I came across this and it helped me:
Solitude is the way in which we grow into the realization that where are most alone we are most loved by God.
It is a quality of heart, an inner quality that helps us to accept our aloneness lovingly, as a gift from God. Thus, our embrace of aloneness is at the same time the cry for intimacy. The deeper the one, the profounder the other. This embrace has nothing to do with an unhealthy self-preoccupation. It is simply recognizing one's uniqueness and differentness, sculpted and understood by God. And there is no greater grace than the blessing of acceptance in the face of one's differentness and loneness.
So this, along with all kinds of other things, has been helping me.
Also repeating over and over, David is alive and well and he is doing God's work in Haiti....helps when I start imagining... |