Romans 8: 14-21
For many people the concept of being alone is a reality of life.
We may have out lived our life partners, never found someone
with whom we could share our life, are physically or emotionally
distant from our families, or are cut off from communicating with people
around us, no matter what the cause, we may feel totally alone.
The experience of solitude is an experience which some people
willingly seek out. A movie actress, from another generation is remembered
by her heavily accented declaration, " I want to be alone." ( Anyone reading this
message can contact me to confirm this reference ! )
Others seek out solitude for the positive experience of
entering into a closer relationship with God. They seek out silence. They
yearn to escape the whirlwind of activity which sweeps through
the daily experience of life.
The prayer of silence, offered in solitude, wells up from
deep within our being, perhaps from a depth not too familiar, nor
comfortable to us. I suggest that it is in that moment, referred to by
the writer of the Epistle to the Romans, that we speak to God
with intimacy and love, saying, " Abba, Father".
As much as the concept of being alone is the reality of
life which may be perceived in the external ways which I have
mentioned, the true reality is, that as children of God, seeking
to live our lives with an awareness of God's abiding presence
in our lives, we are never alone.
It is that abiding presence which gives us hope and
strengthens our resolve to move through whatever situation
we are in, in the confidence that we are not alone.
-Rev'd Canon Christopher Pratt
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