Your Dying Spouse 670 - When God Seems Absent

The hardest thing about being a Christian is that God can sometimes feel so far away.

We're enjoined to a personal relationship with Christ, and things go horribly wrong, and He's not there.

What do you do, when faith seems ephemeral?

I don't know what to tell you. I can only describe what I do.

1. I remind myelf the the factual basis of Christianity; the independently verified existence of Jesus, the willingness of the Apostles to face death in spreading the Gospel (they would not have done this for a known or strongly suspected lie), the complexity of Creation that defies a random start to existence, and the call within me to do things that are contrary to animal-nature.
2. I remind myself that the human heart is an inconstant thing, feelings are fleeting, and that feelings are a large part of faith.
3. I remind myself that it's OK to not be OK, and to hold on...that things will change.

And that, really, is enough.

I'm searching for You everywhere,

but I am fogbound, cast adrift;

can it be that You no longer care,

and that I shall forever be bereft?

Once upon a golden starlit time

I felt my safety in Your hands,

but I have come into a hellish clime,

alone in sulphurous fire-lands.

Comes a voice beside my ear,

a voice so still and small

that I must lean toward, in fear

that, fading, it can't be heard at all.

"Hold fast, although the night has come;

there will be morning, and the Son."

Music from Mr. Mister, with Kyrie.

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