the lord loves you paula and we love you.the best way to overcome your lonelyness is to fully understand who you are in christ(you are the rightousness of God in christ the lord)it is written draw near to me and ill draw near to you,make the year 2011 a year of drawing nearer to the lord just edge a bit closer,because ill tell you the truth the more closer you are to christ the less interested you are for the things of the world,but it is a walk with the lord and the flip side is that the more closer you are the more blessed you become so for your situation the lord will bless you with your heart desire of being closer to your children,jesus loves you but he also wants to be number 1 in your life and he is worthy of being no.1 thats what lord and saviour means he saved you noone else did so give him that honour paula and you will be surprised how everything falls into place :heart:oh ibetter state that i too have lonelyness so i do know however you will never walk on water if you never get out of the boat