Being alone and feeling alone are two different things. All of us feel alone and abandoned at times. It is part of life. It is a hard part of life for folks when they get older because they feel it a lot. The devil likes to push us into that corner because we are very vulnerable to his lies when we feel alone and abandoned. The thing that drives this kind of loneliness away is to simply realize that we are a part of the family of God in heaven and on earth. We must be like a tree and spread our roots far and deep, into the past, and the present, with a long look into eternity. We have a great cloud of witnesses and so we are not ever really alone, or abandoned. And the Lord said, "I will never leave thee nor forsake thee."