express the pain of being alone, and the word
solitude to express the glory of being alone.” This
comment by theologian Paul Tillich points out
how much our feelings color our experience.
To be lonely is to feel isolated - cut off from
others and locked into ourselves. It is to feel loss
and sadness and self-pity.
But to experience solitude is to be alone with
something, such as a book or music - or with
God, in meditation or prayer. It is to feel peace
and well-being.
To turn loneliness into solitude, we need to
concentrate on something outside ourselves.
That’s why prayer can free us from isolation. It
connects us with the beautiful and the universal,
with God.
O my God, I cry by day, but You do not answer;
and by night, but find no rest. Yet You are
enthroned on the praises of Israel. In You our
ancestors . . . trusted, and You delivered them.
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