Here are two questions from our discussion guide from this week. Feel free to answer one, both, or use them to express other thoughts you might have on our theme this week: Blessed are those who Suffer.
01 | Somehow when we are suffering, it seems like it qualifies us for the worst kind of loneliness, for no one else can get inside the experience of what we are feeling. The suffering is ours alone. What is it about our pain and problems that makes loneliness so common too? What are some factors that get in your way of inviting others into your pain and suffering?
02 | If loneliness or loss could be felt as a specific pain in a specific part of your body, where would you feel it? In your stomach? Your throat?
In response to Question #2, Loneliness or Loss has always felt very hollow to me, so more in my upper chest and just...empty. Like gaping empty, almost more like I don't have a back. I feel like I spent a lot of time with my back squeezed up against walls and things in those times like I was trying to stop up a hole.