ESPRESSO SHOT: Our Fear of Being Alone

There is a quiet fear that follows nearly every human heart: the fear that, in the end, we will be left alone. We can endure hardship more easily than abandonment. Yet this is precisely where the Gospel begins. Christ does not remain a distant God, watching the world from beyond the stars. He comes to us as Immanuel—God with us . He walks our roads, bears our sorrows, enters our suffering, and…