Article January 27, 1997 Issue

In a crowd, in solitude, never alone

Ann L. Grauberger

Loneliness isn't what it seems. It doesn't necessarily depend on our being alone. We can feel lonely in a crowd or even among friends. Loneliness comes about because we believe we are dependent on others for our sustenance and supply, for satisfaction and happiness; and others can be unreliable or even unavailable. Loneliness suggests that we can be separated from our source of good and left to face life on our own.

The truth is that as spiritual ideas of God, we can never be lonely or even really alone. God, Love, is always with us, providing for our every need, including satisfaction and companionship. Even if we find ourselves in a difficult or dangerous situation where human help is unavailable, God supplies protection and guidance. And His remedy is neither nebulous nor abstract. It is real, tangible, and demonstrable in human experience. What's more, we can never find ourselves outside of divine care, because it is the very essence of our being.

At times it may seem we are entities separate from God, striving only to get a little closer to Him. Yet, the wonderful truth is that we are actually at one with God, since His idea, man, is the full and perfect expression of all that God imparts. We are the very manifestation of infinite Love's goodness and care. We are at one with divine Mind, the origin of all wisdom and knowledge. The source of our identity is infinite Soul, which includes eternal life. And we can no more be separated from this source than the sunlight can get away from the sun. As Paul says in Romans, "For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, norheight, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord" (8:38, 39).

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