“The worst loneliness is not being comfortable with yourself.”

Anonymous

• I’m not good alone.
• In the alone place I have troubling Thoughts about myself.
• There I get so restless.
• I want to be anywhere else.
• My awkward, bad self shows up in the alone place. I start experiencing old, ugly feelings.
• Struggling, failing and torment live in the alone place. And overwhelming sadness lives next door.
• In my alone place, I feel like a loser.
• It’s the place where I harshly judge myself.
• I’m not my normal self in the alone place.
• When I stay alone too long my good coping skills start breaking down.
• In the alone place a part of me screams, “Do something. Don’t just sit here and experience the quiet. Do something!”
• Nothing good happens in my alone place.
• I hate being alone.
• It’s just me.
• Quiet.
• And this very awkward discomfort.

Prayer

Father, today I make you Lord of my alone place. Jesus and Holy Spirit you are also welcome in my aloneness. Help me find you first and fast when I am alone. And please do your mighty work in me and on my alone fears. Amen.

Bible Connection

God has said, “Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.” – Hebrews 13:5 (NIV)