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When chronic illness challenges faith in divine care

My chronic illness makes me feel abandoned by God even though people keep telling me suffering is a spiritual teacher.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Physical anguish tests the soul's capacity to find meaning beyond the body's betrayal.

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