What If Aloneness Isn't About Loneliness?

Is being alone the same thing as being lonely? After saying goodbye to a beloved dog and noticing the new silence in her house, Andrea Schwartz sits down with Gwen Saunders, a widow of seventeen years whose husband died suddenly just as they were preparing to move across the country. Gwen describes how the hectic years after John's death kept grief at bay, and how loneliness arrived only when her youngest daughter married and moved away — until she came to see that a believer who knows the Lord is always present is never truly alone. Together they discuss the well-meant platitudes that wound the grieving, the temptation to hide from grief in busyness, and the freedom that singleness brings to serve neighbours, widows, and the Kingdom in ordinary, unglamorous ways. It is a gentle, practical conversation for anyone walking through loss and for every church that wants to care well for those who live alone. Listen at cr101radio.com/ootq and subscribe to Out of the Question.