On being alone,

  Alone, we are, all of us, alone. We are that famous trio of ignorance, Me myself and I, and they go wherever we go. Afterall, isn't it true that everywhere you go, there you are, and that no matter how hard you try, that you can never get away from you? But alone we all go, and alone we shall be. Alone with our thoughts, alone in a crowd, alone at times when we are by ourselves, those times when we truly are, all alone. While alone and isolated is when we can do the best clear thinking, at those times when the only opinions you hear are your own.  These few sentences were how I had started this one before I decided to change it. Because while thinking about the subject, I discovered a correlation between  being alone and Paul's teaching on fate and had switched gears to talk about that. The one with all the foreknew, predetermined and predestined stuff, the one that so few understand.
  Obviously, this was a mistake, as the two subjects though joined in some ways, are a complete enough subject within themselves, and deserved the proper amount of space to be separate story's. Anyway, this is what it is to become, whatever it is this turns out to be from here on? Though being alone is most often a good thing, being alone to the extent where loneliness comes, this is not good. It is a very serious subject, and I was trying to begin such a serious subject with humor. That is why the first paragraph had so many uses for the word alone. I have found that by intentionally spinning words like that, that it draws the reader in. But for me, at that point, enough had become enough, and even I was sick of it. In fact, the paragraph about Paul's teaching started with the words, Enough already.
  Getting back to the subject of being alone. Being alone with our thoughts can be a scary place without the Lord. The loneliness that a person who does not know God feels is real, for they truly are alone. If for whatever reason, that person believes that there is no one who can help, and little hope, left alone to his thoughts, all that person has is self, and self is a tyrant. That feeling of being alone and isolated, almost always leads to depression and all that comes with such a state of mind.
  Left alone to our own devices, when we are alone and have time to think, what comes so easily at these times is self examination, and with that, guilt. I've heard that Jewish moms are the best at spreading guilt, but I know others who ain't to shabby at laying on the guilt either. Doubts, it always starts with doubts, and who among us has not had doubts? None, because it is part of the human condition. The, if onlys, and what ifs, they get you every time. So what about those regrets both small and large, what about those times when what you did caused others to hurt? The answer? There is no condemnation in Christ Jesus, and as long as you belong to him, there is no reason for any guilt, and the guilt you do still feel, that is only the last remnants of pride.