The Alone-ness of Jesus.

He always knew the next step of his Father's plans.
Always knew what was on his Father's mind.
His heartbeat in sync with his Father's.

"Without the solitude of our heart, our relationships with others easily become needy and greedy, sticky and clinging, dependent and sentimental, exploitative and parasitic, because without the solitude of heart we cannot experience others as differnt from ourselves but only as people who can be used for the fulfillment of our own, often hidden, needs.

The mystery of love is that it protects and respects the aloneness of the other and creates the free space where he can convert his loneliness into a solitude that can be shared. In this solitude we can strengthen each other by mutual respect, by careful consideration of each other's individuality, by an obedient distance from each other's privacy and by a reverent understanding of the sacredness of the human heart. [indent for new paragraph mine]

In this solitude we encourage each other to enter into the silence of our innermost being and discover there the voice that calls us beyond the limits of human togetherness to a new communion. In this solitude we cna slowly become aware of a presence of him who embraces friends and lovers and offers us the freedom to lve each other, because he loved us first (see 1 John 4:19)."
- Henri Nouwen, Reaching Out