A universal experience of what it is to be human is to experience loneliness.

I'm my name is Father Mike Schmitz, and this is Ascentia presents how it was in the beginning in Genesis chapter 1 and chapter 2. Here is Adam, he's put in the garden and he is alone. And God even says it's not good for the man to be alone, but he's not lonely. Loneliness is the result of the fall. It's not the result of being alone. And we know that this is true,

because here we are even, you know, post fall, where we cannot be alone and still be lonely.

We all experience this. And that's not just people who are living on their own. Maybe you're living on your own. It's not just people who don't have their family nearby, you don't have

really, really close friends. It's every single one of us experiences

the pain of being surrounded by people, but still feeling lonely. And even if you have someone

in your life who loved you so well and so deeply, we know this. We know that at some point,

everyone either walks away or they're taken

away by time, by death, by circumstances, and every one of us will experience the depths of

loneliness. It's not just us. You guys, even Jesus. I mean, again, I'm just projecting us on Jesus, but when God became one of us in Jesus Christ, he experienced the depths of loneliness.

Do you imagine growing up with a fully human nature and a fully divine nature and how isolating that experience could be?

He's one of us. Of course he's one of us in all

things but sin. But think about even that. What if you were like the people around you and everything

but sin? Yes, you'd be one of them. But how isolating would that experience be? We know that

Jesus experienced that isolation in a profound way, possibly his entire life. I'm going to put that out there, possibly his entire life, but at the same time, we know that he experienced it at the end of his life. We know that in the Garden of Githsemini, right, he takes even the three closest men closest to him and said, come watch with me, come pray with me. And they failed him. And it actually seemed like in the gospel, it seems like it bothered him because he says,

can you not just watch with me one hour?

Can you not just here you are taking your rest?

Where he was going through one of the most crushing moments,

Getsemite means place of crushing, right?

One of the most crushing moments of his entire life.

And the people he may have counted on the most failed him.

I don't know if you know this about the Psalms, but out of 150 Psalms,

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