Posted by toojane on January 21, 2007, at 11:22:31
In reply to Re: Suffering, posted by Daisym on January 20, 2007, at 23:36:58
>My faith was always such a sustaining part of me but now I struggle to understand what God wants from me...where was he when bad things were happening?
Is your relationship with God a parental one? Where you view God as a father who watches over you and cares for you as if you were a child? And so you assume that bad things happened to you because he let them, that he failed in his fatherly duty to protect you?I've read posts where you have said you are angry with your therapist for not being there and protecting you when you were little. Where was he?
You are a mother and in your own children's lives, have they ever come home bruised from falls off bikes or with broken arms from tumbles from jungle gyms or with broken hearts from first loves? Why didn't you prevent those things from happening? Is it because you do not love them? Is it because they disappointed you in some way and therefore you abandoned them? Or is it because you couldn't? Because bruises and broken arms and broken hearts are part of life, the same way that bicycles and jungle gyms and first loves are.
Have you ever looked at other faiths and the way they conceive of a relationship with God? It can be very interesting to look at the idea of God in different ways.
I've been reading here about how people look to their therapists as if they were a parent, for comfort and shelter and safety and help and hope. But it seems to me that they are searching for something more than a parent as well.
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