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When illness simultaneously strengthens and challenges faith

My chronic illness has made me question why God allows suffering but also deepened my faith in unexpected ways and I feel confused by holding both responses simultaneously.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Suffering has become both your greatest argument against divine love and your most profound teacher of it.

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