Hello ,
John Cacioppo, the director of the Center for Cognitive and Social Neuroscience at the University of Chicago, is the world's leading expert on loneliness. In his landmark book, Loneliness, released in 2008, he revealed just how profoundly the epidemic of loneliness is affecting the basic functions of human
physiology.
Cacioppo writes: "When we drew blood from our older adults and analyzed their white cells, we found that loneliness somehow penetrated the deepest recesses of the cell to alter the way genes were being expressed."*
To say that loneliness is an epidemic in our society would seem to me to be an understatement. With all of the technology available to us, there is one thing that cannot be resolved it seems; the need for people to have the physical company of other people.
What responsibility do we have as Christians towards those around us who are lonely? We can't change the entire culture, but we can dosomething.
How would God have you help to relieve the utter loneliness that someone in your sphere may be experiencing today? Pray about it, and ask God to give you the strength to do it.
Have a great day and
God bless!
Pastor Mike
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Stephen Marche - "Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?"...The Atlantic, May 2012
