Loneliness

 Why do Christians fear and avoid loneliness?  It is the cross.  Jesus felt it on the cross, but so-called believers shun loneliness.  They try and fill it in with trivia, internet browsing, social media, busyness, entertainment.  But the nothingness of the desert transformation is filled with loneliness.  It is part of letting go of “stuff” and entering “nothingness.”  But nothing is only apparent to the senses, the feelings.  Nothingness is the palace of God.  It helps that you like yourself enough to be alone with you.  Maybe this is one of the reasons people avoid being alone.  But “Alone” in itself could just be an avoidance of others.  The Alone is to allow us to enter into a prayer of no content, to contact this Mystery within us.  Jesus followed, “Why have you abandoned me,” with “Into your hands I commend my spirit.”