Take a deep breath in, hold it, and slowly exhale.
Loneliness can feel like an empty ache, a quiet sadness that sits in the soul.
And I want you to know you are not alone.
Right now, place your hand over your heart, feel its steady rhythm.
Feel where you're standing, where you're sitting, maybe you're in your car.
Take another deep breath in, hold it, and exhale out.
When you're feeling lonely, it can hurt, it can be hard.
Maybe it's a lonely season, maybe it's just a lonely moment, but you have found yourself
wanting to understand or get released from this feeling.
Let's get curious about what's happening with this loneliness, with love, with longing and
hope.
Is it holding a space for you now?
Was there a loss?
Are you missing someone or something that you had wanted or hoped for?
In this moment, what are you noticing?
With your hand placed back on your heart, reminding you that you are loved.
Yes, you matter.
You are seen and you are safe and you are not alone.
He's with you and that part of you that feels alone is seen.
Take another deep breath and as you exhale, release any tension you feel.
Where is that tension?
You can place your hand on that part of you.
What is that part of you needing right now?
Your care for you to see that part of you, just notice it, the sadness, longing, desire.
I want you to ask that part of you what it's needing.
What are you longing for in this moment?
What's missing?
What's not there?
What part of you feels unseen or unheard?
How can I offer myself the presence and kindness I seek?
How can I invite him in, his spirit, Jesus?
How can I invite him in to this place where I need his presence?
It is okay and beautiful to long for connection.
It's a beautiful and holy desire.
Let's reframe loneliness as an invitation rather than an emptiness, an invitation to
fill that space with his love, with the courage to look at what's missing, to let yourself
feel sad and name that and feel that and know that you're not alone as you look at that
space.
What if this moment is calling you deeper into your own heart and soul?
What if it's making space for something sacred, something beautiful?
Now I want you to imagine reaching up, taking his hand.
Is he sitting beside you?
Are you noticing him inside that place that you noticed?
His eyes full of tenderness, hearing him say, I am with you.
You are not alone with me.
You are held in love as you feel whatever you need to feel.
He is a compassionate King Priest.
Let yourself settle into the truth that you are whole, worthy, and loved.
Take a deep inhale, and as you exhale, inviting light, life, filling the spaces where the
loneliness is.
Let the light remind you that in Him, you are safe, and you are seen, and you are known.
Amen.