Are you dealing with loneliness today? If the statistics are accurate, probably over half of my readers are dealing with loneliness almost every day. And, I’m often in that group.
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How to Ease Loneliness Through Faith and Fellowship
As long as I can remember, loneliness has been my unwanted companion. I’ve tried everything I know to completely eradicate it, to no avail. But the only way I found hope despite my loneliness was through faith and fellowship.
How to Deal With Loneliness in Marriage
Do you deal with loneliness in marriage? I’ve dealt with it frequently in the past 18 years. But I’ve learned how to handle it with God’s help.
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Here’s a snippet from my recent post:
Portrait of a Thirsty Woman
Time to gather water again, she sighed to herself. She thought the years would have toughened her, strengthened her. But water gathering days made her soul feel weary.
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She was tired of putting defenses up, day after day. Defenses against being a Samaritan, who the Jews despised. Against being barren, which stripped her self-worth. Against being unmarried yet living with her lover. She was an outcast, even among her own people. And she felt weary from the constant fight to prove her value.
Drops of Jupiter Part 3, Spring 2001
Your conversation that spring semester
warmed me like the bright sun
on winter afternoons.
Marriage blindsided me
with its onion peels
petty arguments
and unpaid bills.