Never Lonely

The Blue Book on page 252 states that once someone visited Mrs. Eddy and asked her, “Mother, are you ever lonely?” She turned and then said, “Alone, child, but never lonely!”

This warms my heart. The “never lonely” part is what we should all know. Hagar’s story in Genesis, chapter 21, reminds me that this is what she had to know also. One of the Bible commentaries spoke of Hagar as being the only one who names God in the Bible as El Roi, which means The God Who Sees Me.

Our God sees all of us as His perfect children. So whenever we are alone, or feeling lonely, we must ask ourselves whether we are depending on God, or on a self apart from the Supreme Being, because our true being is never separated from God; the God who sees me.