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When God feels absent, what do you do?

Have you ever been desperate for God, like, truly desperate — and He doesn’t show up? #Prayer #desperation #Godspresence #depression

When God feels absent, what do you do? By Phillip Snyder, Op-ed contributor Tuesday, March 04, 2025Unsplash/Joshua EarleFor much of my life, I have spoken to, and heard from, the Lord. This communication is called “prayer”, of course, but over the years it’s felt far more comfortable than the formality that word contrives in my mind. At its height, it has felt like breathing, as if I only needed to think of God and there He was, talking with me as one might with a friend.
It was like that for a decade or so. Until it wasn’t.
Dark night
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