Lord, You said it is not good for us to be alone, yet we often choose isolation over the risk of connection. Help us see the lonely hearts around us—in our neighborhoods, workplaces, and even our churches. Give us courage to break through the walls of polite distance and reach out with genuine care. Remind us that You Yourself, in Your Trinitarian nature, are perfect community, and that we find our truest selves not in isolation but in loving relationship with others. Show us how to be instruments of Your grace to those who, like us, sometimes fall and need someone to help them up. In Jesus' name, Amen. [Silence: .....Shared Loneliness] Devotional by