How has your faith in God sustained you through difficult times in your life?
Recently with a very difficult family member illness the prayers of folks and charitable acts , and strong belief in the gospel is holding me up.
I could not count all the times my faith kept me going. I sincerely don’t know how atheists get through the day. One instance recently has involved a hostile family member. After much prayer this person has warmed up. It was a long wait and believing that Jesus and the saints were beside me were a comfort
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It has helped me see that I can learn from the church, I have been through several things to understand what I wasn’t taught as a child. I wasn’t brought into a catholic school due to my learning disability. I now buy many materials that have workbooks and video to get plenty of knowledge.
This is a great question! For me, it has allowed me to except things that are out of my control (namely the loss of my Dad when I was in my twenties and the loss of my Wife’s and my baby boy late in the pregnancy). There is peace and joy in the Lord.
God brings rightful order to a world lost in despair or chaos. Jesus’ suffering gives our suffering meaning. We can unite our suffering with His.
There is freedom in the Cross. God is real and He loves you.
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That is a beautiful testimony to your faith and God’s help. Thank you.
About 9 years ago, our pastor in Virginia said during a sermon, “Some of you out there are teetering on the edge of despair.” I was. I was miserable. I won’t go into the details because it would require mentioning other people. Our pastor continued, “God is working on your problem and will resolve it in a way you could not imagine.” It was true! A bleak and apparently hopeless situation was resolved in a way I never expected.
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I have a spinal cord injury and am now near a total quadaplegic. I couldn’t handle it without my faith.
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Always, but the biggest test of my faith was when my son and only child died in 2021. When he was sick, I literally knelt at my bed and sobbed and pleaded with God to save him. We had ups and downs, but in the end, he was too sick (medical negligence in the beginning really caused it all. My daughter-in-law sent me the perfect Bible verse to help me 1Peter 1: 6 - 7: 6 In all this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials. 7 These have come so that the proven genuineness of your faith—of greater worth than gold, which perishes even though refined by fire—may result in praise, glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed. My faith in Jesus and knowing I will meet my son again helps me continue
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I am so sorry you have to go through this. My father was a paraplegic in the last years of his life and making an adjustment was quite difficult. He tried to focus on his being able to walk again in Heaven. Sending you prayers.
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