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Dec22— Week Seven: Loneliness

Mandi
Dec 22, 2025
3 min read

For anyone learning to sit with seasons of loneliness

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Introduction

Healing is often talked about in terms of food, supplements, routines, and protocols. Those things matter. But they are not the whole story.

Chronic illness affects more than the body. It affects confidence, identity, hope, and faith. It changes how we see ourselves and how we relate to God.

For many of us, the hardest part of healing isn’t what we eat, it’s learning how to keep trusting when our bodies don’t cooperate. It’s learning how to stay hopeful when progress feels slow. It’s learning how to feel safe in a body that has scared us.

That is why these devotionals exist.

Daily Bread is a space to check in with your spirit — not just your symptoms. It is a place to remind yourself that God is near, that you are not alone in what you’re walking through, and that healing is not something you have to force.

This Week’s Focus: Loneliness

Loneliness doesn’t always arrive loudly. More often, it settles in quietly, in the pauses between conversations, in the evenings when the house finally stills, or in seasons when life looks full but something inside feels disconnected.

It’s the kind of loneliness that’s hard to explain because nothing is obviously “wrong,” yet something feels missing.

This week, Daily Bread is making space for that experience, not to fix it quickly or explain it away, but to acknowledge it honestly. Scripture reminds us that loneliness is not a failure of faith or a sign that God is distant. Instead, it’s often the place where God draws nearest, meeting us with comfort, presence, and reassurance that we are not as alone as we feel.

Today's Scripture

Psalm 27:10

For my father and my mother have forsaken me, but the Lord will take me in.

John 6:37

All that the Father gives me will come to me, and whoever comes to me I will never cast out.

Reflection

Often, when we are in seasons of doubt or sadness, we look to our friends, family, or mentors for comfort. We expect them to be our shoulder to lean on, and there’s nothing wrong with that. But sometimes, not because of their wrongdoings, but because of our own expectations, we still find ourselves feeling empty.

Even when we’re surrounded by love and care, there can be a quiet hesitation that creeps in. We pull back. We stop sharing. We convince ourselves we’re asking for too much, leaning too heavily, or becoming a burden. And in that pulling back, loneliness grows, not because we aren’t loved, but because we don’t know where it’s safe to bring the full weight of what we’re carrying.

The reality is that everyone we come across is dealing with their own burdens in life. They may not always have the mental or emotional space for us to unravel into them every day. But the beauty in that is this: as Psalm 27:10 reminds us, “the Lord will take me in.”

The arms of our Lord and Savior are always open. There is never an issue “too big” or “too much” for Him to take on. John 6:37 reminds us further that God is the one place where our needs do not require restraint. Jesus tells us plainly that when we come to Him, we are never cast out. Even when things feel heavy, even when we are unsure, we are still held in the arms of God.

This is your reminder that feeling lonely does not mean no one cares. Sometimes it simply means we’ve reached the limit of what human relationships can hold, and that is often the moment when God invites us to come closer.