Our Daily Bread February 24 Never Alone
Our Daily Bread February 24 Never Alone Bible in a Year: Numbers 9–11 Mark 5:1–20 Two are better than one . . . If either of them falls down, one can help the other up. Ecclesiastes 4:9–10 Today's Scripture & Insight: Ecclesiastes 4:8–12 “It can be an affliction more harrowing than homelessness, hunger or disease,” wrote Maggie Fergusson in The Economist’s 1843 magazine. Her subject? Loneliness. Fergusson chronicled the increasing rates of loneliness, irrespective of one’s social or economic status, using heart-wrenching examples of what it feels like to be lonely. The hurt of feeling alone isn’t new to our day. Indeed, the pain of isolation echoes off the pages of the ancient book of Ecclesiastes. Often attributed to King Solomon, the book captures the sorrow of those who seem to lack any meaningful relationships (4:7–8). The speaker lamented that it’s possible to acquire significant wealth and yet experience no value from it because there’s no one to share it with. But the
