Loneliness Knows My Name - Softcover

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Loneliness is one of the major diseases of our time. St. Teresa of Calcutta told us that when she was alive – so many people feel unwanted. We see this in the amount of young people who take their lives. These figures are beyond alarming. Love is the cure but not many find it. Many would like to pray but nobody has ever taught them. Poets, artists, musicians have often expressed through their art the feelings of loneliness. One such is Vincent Van Gogh. In one of his works while he was in the Asylum at Saint-Rémy, the Olive Trees, he said he expressed the emotions of Jesus, the ‘man of sorrows’ in Gethsemane. By contemplating the picture we can feel the pain and also sense we are not alone, we are accepted. Vincent identified with Jesus, the ‘man of sorrows’ and in his more overtly religious paintings paints himself as Jesus the ‘man of sorrows’. Using art as an analogy and a way of expressing our loneliness, we can contemplate God in Jesus, the ‘man of sorrows’ and come to know the love of God which passes all understanding (Eph 3:19). By remaining with ourselves in silence we can come to hear the ‘still, gentle voice’ of love (1 Kgs 19:13). This book is a form of shared prayer on this journey.

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