If you look at the dictionary that are printed pre-World War II,

Uganda find that the definition of loneliness is being alone, of being isolated, of being in a state of solitude.

Yet in our modern day, a person can be in the midst of 50,000 people, and he is so desperately

lonely. Modern day loneliness is different from a loneliness or solitude. In fact, that is why

it is so difficult to identify. It is so difficult to define. Someone defined it this way.

It is a feeling of emptiness inside.

Others have said it.

It is feeling of a dark tunnel.

Others yet said that it is a period of life when you go through a feeling of defeat and discouragement.

Yet others still identify it as a feeling of longing to be

completed. Whatever modern definition of loneliness may be, it is no longer means just physically

being alone. Because I have seen it, there are lonely singles and there are lonely marids.

There are lonely saints and there are lonely sinners and everything in between.

There are a number of causes of loneliness.

But in this short series, I like to deal with the paradox of loneliness in terms of three causes.

One, which I will deal with today.

Loneliness that is caused or based upon feeling of guilt and sin.

Secondly, we're looking to the loneliness that stems out of separation, out of alienation.

And then thirdly, we'll look into loneliness that is rooted in the spirit of despair.

Whatever the cause of loneliness may be, it is accompanied by anguish.

Anguish that I believe the word of God would teach us today how to deal with and not to dwell upon.

Loneliness cuts across all social barriers. Loneliness cuts across all economic strength. It cuts across all age status.

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