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When friends end up on different sides of doubt and faith

My closest friend from childhood and I both went through spiritual crises in our thirties but she found her way to certainty and I'm still in the questions and now when we talk she keeps trying to save me from doubt. I miss being able to explore together but she seems afraid of my uncertainty.

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Two people learn that spiritual friendship can become impossible when one person's questions threaten the other person's hard-won answers.

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