SOLITUDE

“Everyone should try to find a spot to be alone.”

–Queen Juliana (Netherlands)

Greta Garbo was reported to have said, “I want to be alone.” Life brings its pressures, but we all need to find a place where we can be “alone”.

Alone – not to “think” or “do” – simply to be. We need time to simply rest in our lives. A time in the day which we can call our own, to have a visit with the most important person we have got in our lives – ourselves.

To rest in self is to experience “spiritual selfishness” – the joy of self-love.

And how much we look forward to setting aside a time just for heart and mind to center on the pathway to listening to God.