942) One of the most difficult times a person can have is when they feel all alone. That’s why in my novel, The Bottle House, I have Chaplain Miller spend so much time on the subject. He tells the group gathered that, “When a person has been badly hurt, one of the scariest things of all can happen, and that is feeling all alone. It doesn’t matter if you’ve caused the pain or if someone else has. Feeling isolated is terrible.” (Page 185). Amen!

When you feel all alone in your suffering, pain, and conflict, it can bring even the strongest emotionally to their knees. Even when a person is experiencing joy, being alone takes a bite out of the pleasant feelings.

Jesus knew what feeling alone was like. In his neediest hours before his crucifixion, all his followers abandon him, but even in his pain, he clung to what he speaks of in John 16:32. He was speaking to the disciples about what was coming in the days ahead and he says…. You will leave me all alone. Yet I am not alone, for my father is with me.

Jesus made a point of reminding the disciples that God is always with him. There will never be a time when God is not with us. Not in death, nor life, nor among angels or demons, not in the present nor future, will God ever leave us all alone. (Romans 8:38-39).

The easy part is we can say this is true, but the hard part is when we feel all alone, making the choice to acknowledge that God is right there with us and, by faith, accepting that we are supported, even if it doesn’t feel like it.

You are not alone.