Lord, where are you?

Editorial Staff

My faith, after my wife’s death, has deteriorated somewhat. During the three months of her painful illness I prayed night and day, but there was nothing to do. I still lost her, throwing me and my children into the most terrible despair. I’m so sad. The Lord should not allow such painful mourning. My wife still had to reap the joy and fruits of so many sacrifices. She was a woman who lived in faith and for the family. In the evening, in the dark, she prayed the Holy Rosary on the balcony. When I think that there are so many people who live in dishonesty and exaggerated abundance, I find it hard that the Lord took the life of such a godly creature! I continue to pray, I appeal to Our Lady, to the Saint, but I wonder why all this happened? Why did God want this? g.s. Dear friend, your bitterness and your suffering for this forced detachment suggest a veiled disappointment: God seems to have been unjust and deaf. Often in life we ask ourselves: where is God when we suffer, where is He while we struggle for life, where is He when the silence of death…