Word for the Week
Loneliness and Healing
March 12, 2023
It is not easy to stay with your loneliness. The temptation is to nurse your pain or to escape into fantasies about people who will take it away. But when you can acknowledge your loneliness in a safe, contained place, you make your pain available for God’s healing. God does not want your loneliness; God wants to touch you in a way that permanently fulfills your deepest need.
– from The Inner Voice of Love by Henri J.M. Nouwen (1932–1996)
