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How I Reconnected With God After a Season of Doubt

For years I doubted the existence of God, yet part of me still held out for the lightning-strike miracle of instant faith.I yearned for something so dramatic and definitive, an experience so obvious, I would have no choice but to believe. I wanted the road-to-Damascus moment, like the instant Paul was knocked breathless to his knees in the middle of a dusty road, literally blinded by the startling voice of God.What I got instead was markedly less dramatic. My return to God and faith unfolded ove