by jot and tittle

People are lonely. Sometimes I'm tempted to think that my sister in Christ who has a husband and children could not possibly be lonely, but that's not true. People in all walks of life are are lonely; single, married, children, elderly, all different types of people are lonely.  "No one told me how lonely being a mom with two little kids would be." "I didn't expect to be living alone in my late twenties." "When our youngest moved out and I retired the same year, I wasn't prepared for how quiet the house would be, for how lonely I am." Have you ever said something like that?  I moved out when I was twenty, first living with my brother (who was always gone on the weekends) and then living with a couple other girls. At this point I've lived alone for four and a half years. There are times when I have known that sad desperation of feeling like I was friendless.  The first thing to do is to tell God. "God, I am lonely." It's ok

 "One of the things that I wasn't prepared for as a wife and mother is how monotonous life is. Every day I do the dishes and vacuum and fold laundry and sometimes its hard to be content with the same old, same old." So said the young women before me, with our other friend nodding in agreement.  "And your toddler doesn't thank you for folding the laundry again, does he?" Both smiled.  I guess that's something most of us haven't been prepared for; the monotony of life. The fairy tales and hallmark movies all end with the prince sweeping the princess off her feet...they don't have anything to say about waking every two hours to feed a baby or paying the same bills. In her autobiography, Isobel Kuhn says     "Life does contain moments of adventure, but these times are interspersed with long periods of plain, unvarnished hard work. The real things of life are attained at these monotonous level periods, so to      speak, more than they are at the