Where Is Companionship?

DONALD RAIN ADAMS

For the single person desiring satisfying companionship or eventual marriage, a big question is how to find the right person. Loneliness often looms as a frightening obstacle to happiness and fulfillment. In a world full of people, can we be sure we'll find a companion to love and trust? And how will we know this special individual from our other friends?

A logical beginning is to understand better our own true identity and our relationship to God. Man, the full and complete expression of God, divine Love, includes the right idea of companionship. However, we're apt to think of ourselves as incomplete, and this mistaken self-concept is a primary cause of loneliness.

We forfeit our God-given right to the peace and satisfaction of fulfillment and completeness when we falsely identify ourselves as unloved, deficient. And we really can't expect to be treasured as someone else's companion when we don't even treasure ourselves.

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