Wednesday, February 14, 2007
What to Do If You Are Lonely This Valentine's Day
Loneliness beckons as a frigid moon above a bare tree. The train’s whistle at midnight. Loneliness greets an empty house. We feel it when we hear Blues on the radio with no one in the passenger seat. It’s being a single parent, an only child. Loneliness crosses every life, and it will cross yours.
Maybe it’s raining all over the world and you are the only one getting wet. But don’t let these days shape your attitude. God never meant for us to be alone. But lonely people fill the earth. You will pass them in your car tomorrow or see them on the subway train. Faces staring from craters of despair.
When the heaviness of being lonely gets too much to bear, don’t turn inward upon yourself. When everything within you screams for you to isolate yourself from a world that seems so happy and full of companionship you so crave, don’t do it.
Don’t give up. You will find the one meant for you, if you don’t grow weary in waiting. Everyone works with the spade of time. You are not alone in your waiting. Tomorrow may be your day. Then waiting finishes its work and loneliness passes you by.
Today, more than any other day, you will have to:
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do, it doesn't matter. It believes, "I will always be single."
Michael Seligman, in his book, Learned Optimism, states, "People who give up easily believe the causes of the bad events that happen to them are permanent. People who resist hopelessness believe that the causes of bad events are temporary."
Your loneliness is only temporary, so make a promise to God that you're going to look for the good in your life today. Then go eat some chocolate! You deserve it!
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* This past Sunday at Vintage Faith, we had a record attendance of 65!
Would love to see you at Vintage Faith Church of Decatur!
Maybe it’s raining all over the world and you are the only one getting wet. But don’t let these days shape your attitude. God never meant for us to be alone. But lonely people fill the earth. You will pass them in your car tomorrow or see them on the subway train. Faces staring from craters of despair.
When the heaviness of being lonely gets too much to bear, don’t turn inward upon yourself. When everything within you screams for you to isolate yourself from a world that seems so happy and full of companionship you so crave, don’t do it.
Don’t give up. You will find the one meant for you, if you don’t grow weary in waiting. Everyone works with the spade of time. You are not alone in your waiting. Tomorrow may be your day. Then waiting finishes its work and loneliness passes you by.
Today, more than any other day, you will have to:
Fight the gloomy outlook.
Learned helplessness is the giving-up reaction, the quitting response that follows from the belief that whatever you do, it doesn't matter. It believes, "I will always be single."
Michael Seligman, in his book, Learned Optimism, states, "People who give up easily believe the causes of the bad events that happen to them are permanent. People who resist hopelessness believe that the causes of bad events are temporary."
Your loneliness is only temporary, so make a promise to God that you're going to look for the good in your life today. Then go eat some chocolate! You deserve it!
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* This past Sunday at Vintage Faith, we had a record attendance of 65!
Would love to see you at Vintage Faith Church of Decatur!
