After suffering a terrble loss, do you find yourself quesitioning religion or finding solace in it?

Just curious how religion plays a part in your life after the devasting loss of a loved one?

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After the loss of my dad, I definitly questioned religion..I definitly couldnt see and sometimes still dont see why such a thing would happen. It took a long to find any faith again.

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YES!!!The death of my Grandmother had an effect on the way I viewed God and religion.

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I think it is a natural phase of grieving..even without suffering loss directly. You see the pain and heartache and you question WHY?

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This has been on my mind a lot lately. Usually, yes, I think how could God let this happen, I get angry & lose my faith in everything. Strangely as a surprise to myself, I've found that my faith has actually been strengthened in my grieving of my dad. My dad is dying right now and seeing him this way I don't really know why I'm not angry at God or asking why this had to happen to him. I think this time for some reason I've found a kind of peace and acceptance in my beliefs.. although my heart aches for what he is going through and how much I miss him, I have this deep feeling that everything will be alright.. that he'll be okay, not in this world but after he passes his spirit will be restored & he'll be by my side always. When I pray I truly mean it more than I ever did before. It's strange to me a little bit, never thought I would feel this way but I guess our reactions & emotions are unpredictable even to ourselves sometimes

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i still to this day can not understand why god would allow someone to suffer as much as my mother did. almost 4 years now. lost all faith after she died..what little i had already before that

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When we first lost Rogan, I had a serious problem with God and Church. I truly felt like He had abandoned me, why would He do this to us after we had being trying so hard, etc. We are good people and always try to do right, and I felt like we had been punished for our ways.
As time went by, however, I began to realize that God only deals out what we can handle and although there is no true explanation for why bad things happen to good people, it doesn't mean that He doesn't love us. And I started going back to Church, and I found a new strength that made me want to try again. And I feel now as though my bond with and love for God is stronger now than it was before.

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Origionally when my first husbnd passed away I hated god and, well to be honest, everything else... but after a few months i realized that it was actually for the better because he was in so much pain all the time... what kind of life was he having being in the hospital 3 out of every 4 weeks...