From an article originally posted April 29, 2013…
Did you know it only takes 60 seconds to bring me to my knees? Three different blasts of twenty seconds cause my heart much panic and grief. I have struggled from the beginning with this one lonely minute in my day. A minute utterly alone. A minute where no one wants to be where I am, including me.
Hi, friend.
I see you over there, lost in thought as you watch the holiday shoppers. I recognize that look on your face—that look that says, How did I end up here? Why do all these happy, busy people seem so foreign to me? Didn’t I used to be one? I know the loneliness/sadness/despair you are battling even as you make attempts at joining in the Christmas fun.
From an article originally posted April 22, 2013
My dear Jen Whipple sent me this Psalm last week. As I face hard day after hard day, I brush near to the valley of the shadow of death. I see how little this world holds. My sweet faces of those I love hold me here cause me to not long for Heaven. But this world and its expectations are fallen. Driving down the road, one can see the ugly of commercial, the want for our dollars without care for our hearts. The pull towards want is great with little care for the eternal need for our souls.
Wrecked emotionally. That is what happens to me when I scroll through the posts in the Mundane Faithfulness Community. Often, I am undone. There is praise. There are prayer requests. There are people afraid to share their hard. There are encouragers. Prayer warriors. People who remember a post and take the time to go back and check on someone. I often find myself praying, nodding, weeping. I imagine what Kara would think if she could see this group. See the timid reaching out. People asking for prayer, but also for advice about how to love each other better.
This week Caitlin and I discuss loneliness, specifically loneliness at Christmas, and what it means that God came down to Earth to walk with man. Immanuel, God with us. Also, even with the hope of Immanuel, how do we just get through a rough, lonely day? Caitlin shares her experience and how she has learned to do small practical acts of faith, leaning into a God who has shown great faithfulness to her.
