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Where is God when He feels far away?

Grief, suffering, disappointment, and unanswered prayer can leave God feeling distant or completely absent. Father Tim reflects on Jesus’ own cry from the cross and on a God who enters human suffering and remains close even when we can’t feel His presence.

The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.Psalm 34:19

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God understands the feeling of being abandoned.

Jesus experienced suffering, grief, and the sense of being forsaken. That doesn’t make our pain disappear, but it means we are never speaking to a God who can’t understand it.

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