Grace

 I am connected to the universe.  At one time it was all packed together as one substance.  Then it expanded.  I live in a city and cannot see the full night sky.  But when I go to Sea Ranch, on the California Coast each Fall, I can see so many stars and the Milky Way.  It was the same in the Monastery where I once lived.  I am part of all I see in the sky.  So I am never really alone and isolated except in my head and heart feelings.  Loneliness is a feeling, but that does not make me alone.  If I am connected to the distant star then I am connected to the person walking down the street, in the grocery store, and with all the plants and flowers around the neighborhood.  Grace is everywhere.