There is a road traveled down many a times. One all too familiar to me. This road is known as 'Loneliness'. A road that I have journeyed throughout my years since childhood. A road I wish to become foreign to me. The Merriam Dictionary sums up Loneliness by these four words: LONE. SOLITARY. DESOLATE. LONESOME. A thought process that poisons the mind and distorts our perception of reality. My reality.
When the reality is nothing of the sort. For when I wept words of repentance and remorse and, "Though my sins were like scarlet, they became white as snow, though they were red as crimson, they are now like wool." ~ Isaiah 1:18 (emphasis added). I now have Christ within me. "Therefore I am in Christ, and a new creation; the old has gone and the new has come!"~ 2Corinthians 5:17 (emphasis added). Then if the old has gone, which includes the four words above; the lies the enemy whispers that magnified my already distorted thought process, I've been reborn in every sense of the word! Christ lives within me. He is my constant Companion. My Best Friend. The lover of my soul.
So when days are too quiet and the nights too long, I open the Word to read promises of assurance and comfort. I sing songs of gladness, sometimes off key, but gladness just the same. I revel in ways that I can be a blessing to others right where I am at. And I am reminded of all the beauty around me. Within the ones I love and in the Creation that surrounds me. I have CONTENTMENT. I have FREEDOM. I feel JOYFUL. I am LOVED. Loneliness is no more.
"It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light."
-Aristotle
