Sitting in a church pew last night with my Mister, feeling a sense of profound loss that I had no words to describe. The speaker spoke of loneliness, which he described as a feeling of missing someone or something that is no longer the same part of our lives. I had never thought of loneliness in those terms. But as I looked at the once full pew my husband and I shared, I was lonely. For so many years, we had babies to soothe and then toddlers to sit on and next children to occupy, and lastly teens to nurture into adults. I was lonely and yet this man that I have shared everything alongside for the last 26+ years was sitting next to me and I thought , I know exactly what he is feeling. I laid my head on his shoulder for the remainder of the service and found much comfort there. Jessica Pearl
