Loneliness: The Surprising Way to a New Openness

We are often afraid to be alone. Afraid of what we may discover about ourselves when we stop long enough to be still. Afraid of the insecurities and sins that still lurk within us eventhough we have tried so hard to sublimate them. Afraid to face our insignificance, lack of fulfillment and thw eventuality of our death. And afraid to face the lack of closure and resolution of issues that we have tried so hard to square away.

Yet we need to be alone. For we need to rediscover ourselves as much as we need to bask in the searchlight of God's love and light-to face our pain and lack of resolution with new hope and faith. In learning to be alone and still, we make a way to meet God with opennes and honesty. It is there that we can rediscover that we cannot blame others nor live in unreality.

^{Reference:Dare to Journey with Henri Nouwen by Charles Ringma}