As I think about the most wonderful and the most difficult moments of my life,

there's a common denominator and it's people. The high moments, the wonderful moments,

I scan back my 41 years, I think about the moments of joy and sensing God and they're just

being a sense of power and those high moments intersect with people, the faces of people who are

laughing, the faces of people who are crying, the faces of people who are holding my hands,

the faces of people who are saying to me, me too, me too, you're not the only one,

saying you're going to get through this, saying God has more for you, speaking the promises,

speaking God's word over my life. And as I think back and scan through the inventory of the

of the pits and of the of the moments that are mountaintops, I also think about the hardest

moments, the most challenging moments, the moments that were the most anxious, the moments that

were the most fearful, the moments where I felt like the despair was going to swallow me alive,

and I think about how so many of those moments as I think back to them, I was alone.

Alone because there was either not people in my life or alone because the wrong people

were in my life or alone because I had people but I stayed silent and didn't speak up about what

was making me so sad. I want to talk to you today about the subject of loneliness. If you like

to take notes down, the title of the message God gave me is this is why you are so lonely.

This is why you are so lonely or if you like a subtitle, the subtitle is self-checkouts,

Pickleball, and Jesus. So you could write down whichever one you want.

But we're in a series of messages. Welcome to week two called Make Yourself At Home,

and that's our heartbeat here at Fresh Life Church that you would come in and from the jump feel

that you can make yourself here at home. One of God's favorite ways to describe the Church,

there are many different ways in Scripture that God thinks about nicknames, I guess you could say,

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