This Experience Must Come
In the Spiritual Journey, much time is spent being alone, reflecting on the alone, or feeling alone. In order to accomplish a rebirth, it is essential to be enclosed in a temporary cocoon-like environment. This separation and solitude may occur gradually, or quickly, and causes strong feelings of being isolated, alone, uprooted and often helpless, but is the necessary part of the redemptive and restorative process. The early-twentieth-century Scottish Baptist evangelist and teacher, Oswald Chambers, wrote much about solitude, alone,…