From the back cover: "May the readers, O God, who venture upon You find that as painful as our loneliness may be, it is not as painful as it could be if You did not oversee it, restrain it, enter into it and sanctify it, even including it in Your original design for Your creation. It is my prayer that something said in this work, either by me or by others I quote, may be a bit of light in the darkness, a fragrant incense in the staleness of a locked room, and a stimulating thought to the numbed mind." In addition to insightful meditations on what Scripture has to say about loneliness, this book also contains reflection questions and carefully selected thought-provoking quotes and poems about loneliness. This book was originally designed as an individual study, but it is suitable for group use and discussion as well.