Generally, I am okay being alone. I have become more aware in the 20 years I’ve been since a Unitarian Universalist minister, that I need time with people and time without people. I am not a fan of multitasking, and yet ministry often is multitasking: preaching, pastoring, teaching, studying, learning, sometimes all at once. And so alone time is needed to sort through it all, to be quiet, to reflect, to write, to read, to try to understand all that is taking place around and within me. But there are times, whether I’m with people or taking some alone time, when I feel lonely. Have you felt lonely? I am going to assume the answer is yes for all of us gathered here. Perhaps it was whe...