Longing to See You is a prayer of longing for God’s presence. I hope this prayer-poem inspires you today.
Today’s post is the first one in the #write28days challenge, in which I’m participating during the month of February 2022. Today’s prompt is “Longing,” and here is my prayer/poem.
Joy came from the sorrow of my childhood longing and loneliness.
When I withdrew into private worlds of drawing and reading out of loneliness,
The longing that never left me as a child was triggered by loneliness, which I wrote about in my previous post. I had a void inside, and most often, I chose to fill it with food.
“A vast, unsoothable sense of loneliness”1 was my unwelcome companion for many years after my parents’ divorce. A deep sense of longing accompanied the loneliness, which I called “the wanting” when I was a child.
