Loneliness is not just a matter of being alone, or even solitary, for many people, either through choice or necessity, spend long periods by themselves without feeling lonely. Loneliness is a great desire for close companionship or for the ability to be able to communicate with others. It may be felt when one is in the constant company of other people, no less than when one is continually alone.
Loneliness results from the human need to love and to be loved. Christian Science shows how divine Love, God, meets this human need, as it does all human needs. The Discoverer and Founder of Christian Science, Mary Baker Eddy, writes in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures, "Divine Love always has met and always will meet every human need."Science and Health, p. 494
In absolute spiritual fact, man never lacks love, though it may seem otherwise to human sense. When we are prepared to relinquish the material sense of things and accept the spiritual, then we feel the love of God in our lives.
