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Loneliness and Dealing with Loneliness Requires Faith

About me , I have over 10 years in helping people with their goal setting objectives in life, for both personal and professional growth and development.

I receive weekly e-mails from people from all cultural backgrounds from around the world.

And it seems that many of the e-mails are from people seeking successful relationships whether for your own career goals or for your hopeful happy marriage , if you are single and alone.

Everyone faces the emotional roller coaster ride of feeling all alone; and for some people the feeling of loneliness will only be a short term duration, while others will spend their entire lives living alone and being lonely.

Maybe you have lost your job due to the global economic recession and are struggling to find suitable employment as part of your career goals quest, as part of your new employment search , as you await with anticipation the new job interview .

Being without a job can be a lonely experience. I can relate as the contract that I was on ended January 31, 2011, so I can relate and understand where you are coming from. But there are specific things you can do now… in mitigating the lonely or loneliness you are experiencing at the moment.

The Power of Faith and Prayer in Comforting Any Loneliness You are Experiencing

As a Christian believer in the Lord Jesus Christ as my personal Lord and Savior, I can offer first hand testimony as to the power that hope and faith has had on my life.

Don’t worry, I am not trying to brainwash into believing what I believe. I am only trying to you think outside the box in realizing the power of one’s faith, and the impact that prayer can have as part of your emotional and spiritual growth maturity and development.

I believe God teaches everyone of us lessons in life, and every situation both, good bad and/or indifferent can be used as lesson for learning and discerning what God is teaching to you. Maybe your once happy marriage is no more and you are painfully realizing all too late what went wrong. What could you have done to avoid your living alone feelings of being lonely?

Or maybe your once very successful relationships which were an integral part of your life and your identity as a person are no more. Think and reflect as to what part you are responsible for.

Sometimes things happen without any involvement from others at all, but many times you you have a role to play in your loneliness.

Ask God to help you overcome the loneliness you are feeling inside. Call out to him, and don’t worry that you may not know exactly how to meditate and pray to Him, God knows your heart. 1 Samuel 16:7 But the LORD said to Samuel,"Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him. For the LORD sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the LORD looks on the heart."

If after all you’ve tried in dealing with loneliness as not worked for you, you owe to yourself by giving God a chance. Also, if you ever want to know the age old secret in how to be happy and how to succeed in life, put God first in your life.

Get Involved in Outside Activities and Events In Dealing with Loneliness

There’s power in numbers. God created mankind with an innate sense of belonging and developing close social relationships, not only with God Himself, but with other fellow human beings as well. As human beings, we are all social animals in the sense that sum of the whole is greater than the individual parts that we are comprised of. To that end, it is good to be involved in others’ lives, and other event causes that you are passionate about.

You see, when you get involved in other social activities, other causes that you feel and believe passionate about in doing, in connecting with others’ lives and other things to fill the void of loneliness and dealing with loneliness that you are experiencing, you take the emphasis of yourself and your own feelings of being alone, and you channel those energies into a worthwhile cause.

By being involved with other people and activities removes the lonely feeling you are feeling, because you are focusing on someone else or some other activity at the moment. There are many worthwhile activities and/or hobbies and social clubs that you can get involved in.

Check with your local church, parish, community center or even your local library re. social events/activities that you can sign up and do. volunteering your time and energies for a worthwhile cause you believe in is a noble thing to do, and reflects positive character development on your part.

Whether you want to help with church planting and bible distribution throughout rural India such as glad tidings India , or helping out with your local food pantry, volunteering your time in a worthwhile cause will help to remove the feelings of feeling like you are all alone and lonely.

Get Involved in a Hobby?

I think everyone needs a hobby or maybe even two. I have to hobbies that I just love which are metal detecting and flyfishing for native brook, brown and rainbow trout.

Don’t worry, I’m not advocating that you must take up my hobbies as your own, but instead to be open to these and other hobbies that you can easily get involved in as a positive and healthy way of eliminating the loneliness from your life.

The important thing is to get involved, but you need the self discipline and the self confidence to want to get involved.

And having a little bit of hope and faith in God above and in your God given abilities doesn’t hurt either.

Remember: Your Ability is only limited by Your Inability to Take Action.