Willa….praying for you, too!

There’s something to this, I think. Loneliness is a state that requires time for reflection.

Your faith in the midst of the hospital life (ever so much more intense and chronic than ours–I’m such a wimp) has been inspiring me. Thanks! :-)

On the inside I’m that way myself, but there are two things that keep it from being quite a practical reality: One is that when I was a child people were always telling me to cheer up and join in, to the degree that I developed the habit of doing so just to please them. The other is that if I didn’t join groups, my daughter and I might go for weeks without seeing anyone during the day but store clerks, and in NYC, it’s a real challenge to make friends with store clerks (in Georgia I always had my favorites). And then there’s that whole “don’t give up the habit of meeting together” thing, which in my church, means fellowship groups. But really, I’d rather have one family over at a time, because you can have a real conversation.

By the way, I often print out your various links to have some literally (not figuratively!) lightweight material in my purse when I wait at the doctors’ office, violin lessons, etc. (Lightweight because I don’t have a car.) And I like to read through old material from time to time, too, just to see if I can get more from it, have internalized it, or whether I’ve moved past needing that bit of information anymore.

I love the idea of the chicken singing.