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When prayers seem answered in terrible ways

I prayed desperately for my marriage to survive and instead my husband died in an accident, which some people say was God's way of ending my suffering, and I don't know whether to be grateful or furious.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Divine intervention that resolves problems through tragedy forces a confrontation with the potentially incomprehensible nature of sacred will.

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