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When a child's suffering tests parental faith

My teenage son is struggling with addiction and I have been praying constantly but he keeps getting worse and I am starting to think God has abandoned us.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Watching a child destroy themselves despite desperate prayer can feel like divine rejection of a parent's most urgent need.

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