A few weeks ago, I traveled to another country without my twenty-eight and thirty-year-old adult children. Just a few days later, my older son jumped from a third floor and killed himself. So I returned to my country, but now I don’t have the energy to do anything at all. I would appreciate a word [...]
I believe that I interfered with God’s will. I am a medical doctor, and a little less than a year ago my brother, the person who I loved most in this world, died during surgery for a brain tumor. I was angry and I blamed my mother for the delay in my brother’s diagnosis because [...]
The Bible says that only God the Father knows when the final events of humanity will take place.... I think that those events cause many of us to wonder, and some people to feel terrified about the impending last judgment. What should the attitude of the Christian be when faced with the real possibility that [...]
I can’t stop thinking about something that bothers me and scares me to death. I have always wondered about eternity, and if sometime after death, once we’re in heaven, God will destroy us. It feels like He created us for a finite time period and, after that time is over, He will discard us. It [...]
When I was twenty-one I married a special man... but two months after our second child was born my husband died of cancer.... I had to give up all outside work and activities in order to take care of my children.... A year ago I married again, and my children love my new husband.... But [...]
A year ago, my father passed away. He was a good father, though with many weaknesses.... My older brother invited me to go to the cemetery to take flowers to his gravesite, but my mother and younger sister do not think that we should do that. They interpret it as revering the dead. Would it [...]
From our childhood on, my sister and I shared everything. She was a little older than I am, and was like a mother to me. Nevertheless, as a brainless traitor, I misspent her hard-earned money on a lost property.... Then, when she needed to get over an illness, I couldn’t help her. I caused her [...]
My beloved twenty-nine-year-old son, full of life and loved by everyone, had a fatal accident and died.... I am not a one-hundred-percent believer nor do I practice any religion, and after this, even less of a believer. I don’t understand it. I lash out powerlessly at who knows what. God, according to many, has taken [...]
Ten years ago, my first wife gave birth to my first child. He was born with a rare deformity in his heart. When he was three months old, he had surgery and died on the operating table. A few days before that, I made a short pilgrimage... and entered the church on my knees, with [...]
A little more than three years ago I lost a nephew. He was nineteen years old and died suddenly. While at the university, he fainted, and by the time they got him to the hospital he had already passed away. That hurt me deeply. I looked for help in the Word of God, wanting to [...]
