Solitude can be a very significant and life changing moment in our lives. It’s not at all selfish to take time to be by yourself, it’s actually a very mature move to position you to become more selfless. In order to have healthy relationships and be able to give wholeheartedly to others we must have that time alone to be re-fueled. A car can’t move without gas nor can we draw from an empty well. When we don’t take time for ourselves we become entangled in life’s circumstances and exhausted. Things that we may have had control over before now seem to be slipping out of our hands. Areas in our lives that we had a clear perspective on have become blurry because we have neglected our time of silence. Solitude allows us that time by ourselves to do a number of things:
1. It is a time of discovery. It helps us identify things about ourselves that we never knew and in this time of privacy we uncover our uniqueness.
2. It allows us to Trust God more and recognize our dependence on Him.
3. It gives us a clear assessment of our lives.
4. It gives us an opportunity to care for ourselves. These things are hard to accomplish if we are always busy and always speaking. Find time in solitude and see that you have more peace, your joy increase and the chains of your anxiety diminish.
“What a lovely surprise to finally discover how unlonely being alone can be.” –Ellen Burstyn
Love,
Dot
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