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Loneliness and How to Overcome It At times in your life, have you felt that you were all alone and yearned to be with and feel connected to others? I have. This feeling describes the emotion of loneliness. Other words people use to describe loneliness include feeling empty, isolated, excluded or left out. You can feel lonely when you are physically alone and you can also feel lonely in the presence of others. Loneliness is really a reflection of whether or not you feel connected to others. God is a God of relationship and community. That is evident in His very nature. He is the Trinity — three in one; God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. In the opening chapters of the Bible, God established that “It’s not good for the man [Adam] to be alone...” (Genesis 2:18a, the Message). His solution? God continued, “... I’ll make him a helper, a companion.” (Genesis 2:18b, the Message). He brought Eve to Adam and they “become one flesh.” (Genesis 2:24b). We are designed to be

JOHN HUSS (1369-1415) The most famous quote by John Huss Lord Jesus, it is for thee that I patiently endure this cruel death. I pray thee to have mercy on my enemies." Early in his monastic career, Martin Luther, rummaging through the stacks of a library, happened upon a volume of sermons by John Huss, the Bohemian who had been condemned as a heretic. "I was overwhelmed with astonishment," Luther later wrote. "I could not understand for what cause they had burnt so great a man, who explained the Scriptures with so much gravity and skill." Luther Inspired by Huss         Huss was born to peasant parents in "Goose town," that is, Husinec, in the south of today's Czech Republic Huss would become a hero to Luther and many other Reformers, for Huss preached key Reformation themes (like hostility to indulgences) a century before Luther drew up his 95 Theses. But the Reformers also looked to Huss's life, in particular, his steadfast