Behind our walls and security gates and guns and burglar alarms, we are becoming increasingly lonely and isolated. Loneliness is fast becoming a quiet epidemic in our country, even in crowded urban areas like ours, people feel lonely in a crowd. Disconnected, isolated, abandoned. Loneliness is a major factor in the rise of teenage suicide. It is a driving force behind our youth seeking identity and meaning in street gangs.
Loneliness leads husbands and wives to look for romance outside their marriage.
It leads singles into misguided relationships and misuse of their sexuality. We have a need to connect and be connected. God said that in the beginning when He made us, and we affirm that with our own bevavior. We rush to get the mail from the mailbox, or the e-mail from our computers. I know people on the internet who send out letters to people they don't known just to get letters back.