Posted by mair on March 14, 2007, at 21:53:08
In reply to Re: Looking into the Abyss » Iwillsurvive, posted by Daisym on March 13, 2007, at 19:29:23
>" Sometimes I think God is testing my faith. Other times it feels intact, like it is a part of me that can't be taken away. I guess it is true that we aren't really ever alone, but I also can't tolerate the thought of God watching while I was abused and doing nothing. I'd rather think he stepped out of the room for a minute or two.
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> I used to believe and smugly say, "everything happens for a reason." I no longer believe that. I think random crummy things happen and we can make meaning from them, but there is no inherent purpose to tragedy."
>Daisy - This is totally off the point of your thread, but I found this post to be a simple but eloquent statement of how faith survives the occurence of awful events. Whatever faith I may have had never survived junior high school and I live in an area of the country where it is pretty unusual to hear people talk about their own faith. However, I'm also not totally ignorant about matters of faith - my father was a minister who also taught religion courses at a college and I took enough religion courses in college (thank goodness, not the college where my father taught) to come close to a major. I was just really struck by the way you explained this.
Your list is ridiculously overwelming for anyone, and frankly humbling. While I recognize that you've got much too much going on, I've always been incredibly impressed with how you've managed to hold things together with your job, maybe because work is my huge achilles heel. I think you have some pretty strong inner resources, one being your faith, and you seem to have a dedicated and loyal T, who I firmly believe is treating you because he wants to help you get through this. If you can find a way not to give up on your T and not to give up on yourself, I think you'll come out of this abyss just fine.
mair
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