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When illness challenges platitudes about divine providence

I got diagnosed with a chronic illness and everyone talks about how God doesn't give you more than you can handle but I feel like I'm barely handling this.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Physical suffering can reveal the gap between religious comfort formulas and lived reality's sometimes overwhelming demands.

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