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When your prayers are answered but others' aren't

My husband survived his heart attack and I thanked God, but the woman in the next room lost her husband to the same thing and I can't figure out why prayer would be selective.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Survivor's guilt intersects with theological questions about divine fairness and the arbitrary nature of tragedy and blessing.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

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