Article January 27, 2014 Issue

Party of one

Marjorie Kehe

Have you ever felt all alone? Especially when it comes to your most deeply held convictions—does it sometimes feel to you as if there is no one at hand who shares those convictions? As if you had somehow become an army of one!

Let me assure you, you are not the first person to feel that way. Elijah, the Hebrew prophet, expressed such concerns about 3,000 years ago. It was during the reign of Ahab.

Elijah, frightened for his life, had escaped into the wilderness. There, utterly alone and dismayed, he cried out: “I have been very jealous for the Lord God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away” (I Kings 19:10).

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