ALONE

What a struggle we have, to keep the reality of our aloneness at bay! We use background music, cell phones and ear-pieces like umbilical cords to distract us from the dread sense of isolation. The city is full of people talking into phones to keep some sense of communion. Most of our talk does not really breach our loneliness. Remember Pascal's comment, "The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room."When Jesus had been with the crowds all day, talking to them, laying hands on the sick, he felt the urgent need to be alone and pray. On the hillside the Holy Spirit linked him to his Father. The same spirit dwells in us, as St Paul describes (Romans 8:26) "The Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words."



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