Single Mom Strong With Pam Kanalyናሙና

Loneliness

While single moms are the busiest women in the world, feeling estranged from others is often a common reality. And what’s the root? Loneliness. It’s that feeling of separation or the lack of companionship. It’s a painful reality in realizing that after eight o’clock at night there’s no other adult under the roof to share in the day’s journey or worries about the children.

Many believe that if they only had a spouse, their loneliness would go away. Although it might take the edge off the discomfort, the deepest longing of the heart is communion with God. What would happen if we saw loneliness as a good thing? What if instead of running from loneliness in pursuit of another, we ran to Jesus asking Him to fill the void? What if we remembered that just as physical solitude enables us to hear the Father’s voice, inner solitude enables us to know the Father’s character: comforter, companion, and sustainer.

Single moms are not the first to appear on God’s radar screen of the remote. God strengthens the alienated at heart: Paul, Silas, and even David. Notice David’s quest, “Though my mother and father may forsake me, the Lord will take me in.” (Psalm 27:10)

In what ways are you asking the Father to “take you in?” How is it settling your undesirable emotions?

Beloved single mom, you feel empty and isolated, but I have not left you as an orphan. In your loneliness I am training you to know the reality of My nearness. You’ll never be closer to Me than in your darkness. I am here. You are not alone. I love you. – Jesus