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Topic:
Hope In Loneliness, Part 5 Of 5
To ward off your own loneliness if you are single, you will find in
many larger cities a number of Christian singles groups or ministries.
Many larger churches provide singles programs. Even if your present
church does not have such a program, you can start calling churches in
your area to find such a ministry. Better yet, bite the bullet and start
a group in your own church.
In your phone book yellow pages you will find a long list of
non-profit corporations and social agencies. These agencies need
volunteers. In addition, in the yellow pages you will also find numerous
lists of health care providers like hospitals, clinics, and retreats.
These institutions need volunteers. In addition, you will find all kinds
of organizations dedicated to religious, political, and social causes.
In many of these organizations there is a paid employee called a
volunteer coordinator. The job of the volunteer coordinator is to find
people like you who will come in to volunteer their time and effort to
help the organization. You have nearly unlimited opportunities to reach
out to others.
Although there are unlimited opportunities for you to reach out to
others, you can get involved in these opportunities on a full time basis
and still be lonely. The one thing each lonely person has to do first is
quit looking at their own life and then start looking at the hurt, pain,
and loneliness in the lives of others. If you battle loneliness you
should understand more than anyone else what others are going through.
The key issue anyone who battles loneliness must confront is being
honest enough to see the realities of life. When we suffer from
loneliness, we must see all the realities, both the positive and
negative. We all have needs for contact with other persons. We all need
to bond emotionally to others. God made us this way.
Finally, when we are lonely we are feeling our own pain, our own
fear, and our own darkness but we can overcome. When we feel lonely we
are not feeling the pain, fear, and darkness of someone else, we are
consumed by our own pain, but we can overcome. Loneliness is insidious
but we can overcome. Loneliness consumes us and turns us inward when
what we need the most is to turn ourselves outward to others. To
overcome and defeat loneliness we must get into the "turning"
business. To overcome and defeat loneliness, we must turn our attention
to the needs of others. To overcome and defeat loneliness, we must turn
our attention away from our own pain, and we must turn our spirit and
soul toward God and toward others. When we truly seek God's love and
peace in our loneliness, He will answer. The best way to find hope and
the Light is to give hope and Light away. When you find another lonely
person, the best thing you can do for them is to give them hope and the
Light by being there for them…so they will not be lonely. When you try
to take away the loneliness of others by giving them hope and the Light
of the love of God, what you give away comes back to you. The catch is
this. If you try to give away hope and the Light for a selfish reason,
nothing comes back. However, if you give hope and the Light away because
you see the pain of others, you receive back what you give away many
times over.
If these words have been a blessing, please forward them to a friend
These words were posted at one of Shepherd's Care
Ministries Sites called Wisdom Moment, The site is located at:
http://www.findthepower.com/wisdomminute
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