Comments on: Cup of Communion https://shirleymozena.com/grief-and-loss/cup-of-communion Shirley Quiring Mozena Tue, 30 Oct 2018 01:26:01 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1.2 By: Shirley Mozena https://shirleymozena.com/grief-and-loss/cup-of-communion#comment-600 Fri, 15 Jun 2018 18:18:12 +0000 http://shirleymozena.com/?p=2098#comment-600 In reply to Joyce Erickson.

Yes, your comments are true–we do need to be comfortable “with” our solitude. It’s just better with another!

]]> By: Joyce Erickson https://shirleymozena.com/grief-and-loss/cup-of-communion#comment-599 Fri, 15 Jun 2018 17:14:19 +0000 http://shirleymozena.com/?p=2098#comment-599 This reflection makes me think about an old spiritual: “You must walk this lonesome valley, you’ve got to walk it all by yourself; nobody else can walk it for you.” If we don’t learn how to be by ourselves, to be solitary, won’t it be much harder to walk that valley? Of course, even in our solitariness, the Spirit of God is with us whether we recognize it or not. But the “or not” is part of learning to be healthily alone (that is, not lonely).

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