For a Person Suffering from Loneliness

COMPANION of our souls! Friend that sticketh closer than a brother! Hear our prayers for this Thy servant, who feels lonely and forsaken, alone upon the wide sea of humanity. Thou hast made us, in the inmost ground of our being, with desires for fellowship, with a nature that is unfinished until it completes itself in union with others. Comfort Thy servant with a sense of Divine companionship. May he look up into Thy face and learn to say, "I am alone, yet not alone, for the Father is with me." Speak to him through other lives. Raise up to him friends and brothers, and draw his heart to them that the joy of comradeship may be his; that never again may he be tempted to say within himself, "Who am I, that I should be remembered among so great a multitude?" May Thine ancient comfort sustain and strengthen him, "Though a woman may forget the son of her womb, yet will not I forget Thee." Answer this prayer for Christ's sake. Amen.