Article September 19, 2011 Issue

Lonely? Play by God’s rules

By Dorian Atkins

I was in middle school when I first started to feel alone.

It started when I began to feel that people weren’t really talking to me, or were leaving me out of conversations. Eventually I was certain that the other kids at school—even the ones I hung out with—just weren’t noticing the fact that I existed.

I realized that I was never truly alone—that God is not only my protector, but also my friend in a sense.