Why do I feel so lonely even though I have lots of friends?

You scroll through your phone at 22:00 and there are forty unread messages. You are not alone by any measure anyone can see. But you put the phone down and the quiet hits you like a wall. That specific loneliness, the kind you feel in a full room, is one of the worst kinds there is. It means people know your name but not your weight. God speaks straight into that gap.

"A man that hath friends must shew himself friendly: and there is a friend that sticketh closer than a brother."

- Proverbs 18:24 (KJV)

Think of one person in your life who has seen you at your worst and stayed. Send them a voice note today, not a text, a voice note, and say one true thing you have not said out loud yet. It does not have to be big. Just real.

What is one true thing about yourself that you have never let anyone close enough to hear?

God, I am tired of being known by many and seen by none. Get me past my own walls today. And thank you that you already know everything I am afraid to say. Amen.