The law that leads us out of loneliness
Roy Orbison’s 1961 album Lonely and Blue kicked off with the hit song that epitomizes that title, “Only the Lonely (Know the Way I Feel).” Sixty-five years later, statistics are recording an epidemic of people who know how Roy felt and understand why he sang about it in such a plaintive voice.
But what if loneliness isn’t really about who is or isn’t around us, but instead about accepting the subtle yet pernicious thought “I lack love”? Well then, there’s hope for us.
Christ Jesus taught and demonstrated that God is Love, an all-embracing Love that meets our human needs. Jesus was showing us that no matter how isolated we seem to be in our life, there’s something very present to lean upon, and that is God Himself. As a hymn from the Christian Science Hymnal puts it,
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