My husband and I lost our daughter in a car accident two years ago and we're both still believers but we believe completely different things now about why God let this happen and neither of us can pray with the other anymore. We sit in the same pew every Sunday but we might as well be in different universes and I don't know how to bridge this gap between his anger at God and my need to find meaning in her death.
More people experience this than they realize.
Two people who shared a faith are discovering that suffering has fractured their spiritual worlds in incompatible ways.
“Where Are You with Faith and suffering — the theodicy question?”
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