Surgeon General: Loneliness poses risks as deadly as smoking: - The Associated Press

CHRISTIAN RESPONSE: We are blessed as Christians to have a local group of like-minded people that we can get together with multiple times per week. We share difficult & great events with each other to learn, mourn and encourage each other. But even great than that, we have the very presence of God living inside us reminding us that God will never leave us and one day, we'll permanently be in a place of incorruption with Him forever!

Galatians 6:1-2 - "Brethren, if a man be overtaken in a fault, ye which are spiritual, restore such an one in the spirit of meekness; considering thyself, lest thou also be tempted. Bear ye one another's burdens, and so fulfil the law of Christ."

Hebrews 10:24-25 - "And let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works: Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching."

II Corinthians 4:8-9 - "We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed; we are perplexed, but not in despair; Persecuted, but not forsaken; cast down, but not destroyed."

Luke 11:13 - "If ye then, being evil, know how to give good gifts unto your children: how much more shall your heavenly Father give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him?"

I Corinthians 2:9-10 - "But as it is written, Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. But God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit: for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God."