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Alex Seeley on What to Remember When You’re Angry at God

Can we be honest? Have you ever felt so abandoned, disappointed, or overwhelmed by a situation that you blamed God? Maybe you cried out for help, but the heavens felt like brass. You wondered if every prayer just bounced back off a hard, heavenly surface and slipped away into the abyss. Nothing seemed to work, and the more you cried out, the more twisted in knots you became. You felt like a child who had been abandoned, and all you longed for was a soft place to land—loving arms that would bring