So the mystery of our loneliness is the mystery of our love and longing for God, and it is fullfilled in us entering into the relationship of Jesus with the God he calls Abba, "My God and your God," as he says to Mary Magdeline, "My Father and your Father," if the love of God is simply joy at the thought of God, as I have learned from Spinoza, this means an underlining joy in a life. That is what I have found in spite of the fear and weariness and sadness of a life, an underlining joy, a joy at the thought of God with me on my journey in time. "Under all there was a great joy," as Tolkien says: "a fountain of mirth enough to set a kingdom laughing, where it to gush forth." - John Dunne, A Journey with God in Time: A spiritual quest. p. 83, Ch. The Mystery of our Loneliness.
What would it be to meet where we are most alone? An image of such a meeting would be that of meeting a "child of God," an afflicted person who lives outside the human circle. Dostoevsky seems to describe such a meeting in The Idiot. He set out there to depict a good man, but with the consciousness of the Gospel, "one there is who is good," and so he imaged the good man as an idiot, a "child of God." Prince Myshkin, the idiot of his story, meets others where they are most alone-- in their circumstance, their conflict, their guilt, their suffering, their dying. - John Dunne, The Reasons of the Heart.