There will be a day when you lose something--your health or comfort, your wealth or a person important to you. You will wonder if God has turned away. You will be crushed as all people are at one point or another, but it will not feel like an experience common to people. It will feel unique as though no one else could possibly grasp your personal suffering much less stand up under it.
Everyone in your life familiar with suffering will be tempted to turn away. Many will. Everyone in your life unfamiliar with suffering will definitely pull away and distance themselves, cutting you twice. Those who help the most will be the people you have previously looked down on. It is an old story and it will someday be your story.
Signed,
a former pentecostal who still senses things from time to time
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