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Autophobia #2

4/2/2013

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Alone at Valley Forge
04-03-13 Autophobia #2

Webster defines Autophobia as “the morbid fear of solitude.” I thought, is there really a fool who is afeared of automobiles?

Jean-Paul Sarte wrote, “If you are lonely when you’re alone, you are in bad company.”


Being alone has many connotations. When God made Eve to cure Adam’s fear of solitude, He, as always,­­ did a wonderful thing. True, there are times when we think incorrectly, that we are alone and thus we seek someone to be around. Animals do the same. My office is in the corner of our living room and over the years I have noted that our resident canines find comfort in just being in the room with me. Or so I think. The resident Great Blonde says, “They just want be near enough to see what foolish thing you’ll write next.” Could be.

Ecclesiastes 3:1, “To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” This includes company and solitude in balance.

Truth be known we need a balance of deep “being with” and solitude. Jesus demonstrates solitude and being with. There are several levels of each, the highest level of “being with,” being with our God given spouse and the highest of solitude, being aware of being alone with Christ.

Jonah was alone when he prayed from the whale’s belly, “When my soul fainted within me I remembered the LORD: and my prayer came in unto thee, into thine holy temple.” Jonah 2:7.

Copyright © 2013 Larry Lilly


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Oral Deckard link
4/2/2013 10:29:42 am

Being alone doesn't sound so bad, until you have had enough and need the balance. And how bad can it get? The extreme punishment in prison is solitary confinement. It is so bad that it leads to depression, and sometimes to suicide.

People have a built in need to be together with someone they can share life with. Some partially fill the need with pets, but that can only go so far. Though pets never judge you as people do, there is only so much sharing that can be accomplished with some thing or some one that cannot comprehend what your complex thoughts.

People fill that need much better than pets.

But they too have their limits.

So what do you do for understanding when there isn't a person anywhere that can truly understand where you are coming from, because they do not know your innermost thoughts ?

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David link
4/3/2013 05:17:21 am

Dr. Lilly, I thank you for yet another article right on target. I struggle with "feeling" lonely. Though I am caregiver to our special needs son who is near adulthood, I find myself deeply lonely at times. It helps knowing the truth of Hebrews 13:5, "Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee." Thank God for His presence!

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