One of the editors over at Patheos recently asked a slate of bloggers to respond to the following question (in 100 words or less):
When you can’t drop everything for a year-long spiritual pilgrimage, how/where do you seek spiritual renewal in times of personal crisis?
She asked it in response to Eat, Pray, Love, with the recognition that most of us can’t fly off to Italy, India, and Bali when our life feels upside down. Here’s my response:
When my mother-in-law was diagnosed with terminal cancer, it was hard to trust God. After our daughter was born with Down syndrome, my heart felt too raw to pray. And that was where the body of Christ came in. When my faith is weakest, when the world is at its darkest, when I am not even sure that God exists, I don’t pray much. My Bible often sits unopened. I don’t seek out retreats or workshops. Instead, I rely on the prayers of others to carry me back to Jesus. They’ve brought me home every time.
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